Terminal Identity

Groundbreaking. . . . Terminal Identity has a valuable theoretical contribution to make to the burgeoning para-literature on cyberpunk and its related cultural tropes. Besides that, it's a tremendously well-informed science fiction source-book which covers everyone from Brian Aldiss to Pamela Zoline. Destined to become a seminal text. -- Steve Beard * I-D * Terminal Identity gathers together an extremely impressive . . . array of post-modernist attempts to assess `the narration of new technological modes of being in the world.' -- John Clute * TLS * This is `the book' on science fiction and cyber technology-there is just so much information here it is mind boggling. . . . If you plan on buying any theoretical book this year, make it Terminal Identity. * Terra X * Illuminating. . . insightful in its range of theories and fictions. . . . -- Erik Davis * Voice Literary Supplement * Terminal Identity offers a definitive formulation of science fiction within a philosophical framework of techno-culture. . . . Bukatman has designed a kind of map of the technological unconscious which constitutes a surrealist discourse on the fusion of bodies and machines. -- Catherine Russell * Canadian Journal of Film Studies * Terminal Identity is a landmark book that should be read by all serious scholars of contemporary SF and postmodern culture. In his wide-ranging study, Bukatman does a much-needed job of synthesizing numerous studies of postmodernism and of SF literature and film to give us a new perspective on changing representations of the human subject in the electronic age. . . . Terminal Identity is well worth reading and impressive for its range of reference and synthesis of ideas. -- Andrew Gordon * Science-Fiction Studies * This book should appeal to . . . anyone in the humanities disciplines working within the discourses of postmodernism. The scholarship is absolutely superior. -Vivian Sobchack, author of Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film Scott Bukatman is a smart man who has been thinking hard and paying a lot of attention. People should listen to him. -Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown:Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier A major addition to the critical study of science fiction. . . . [Bukatman's] analyses of the tropes and metaphors found in recent SF illuminate key areas of concern for postmodernism generally. -Larry McCaffery, editor of Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction