Synopsis
Nonfiction. Technology. Sexuality. Edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Guenther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, Thomas Ballhausen. As the official artists' collective representing Vienna at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group--Johannes Grenzfurthner, Gunther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry--invented an artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a very elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings that same sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collection exploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literary forms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to the investigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here questions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along with the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss of control). Provocative and penetrating, DO ANDROIDS SLEEP WITH ELECTRIC SHEEP? reveals a wealth of depictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address the present.
About the Author
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b>Richard Kadrey</b> is a novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco. Kadrey’s novels are Metrophage, Kamikaze L’Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion.” Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50 published short stories. Kadrey’s short story Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human Clone was filmed as After Amy. His non-fiction books as a writer and/or editor include The Catalog of Tomorrow (Que/TechTV Publishing, 2002), From Myst to Riven (Hyperion, 1997), The Covert Culture Sourcebook and its sequel (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993 and 1994); Kadrey also hosted a live interview show on Hotwired in the 1990s called Covert Culture. He was an editor at print magazines Shift and Future Sex, and at online magazines Signum and Stim. He has published articles about art, culture and technology in publications including Wired, Omni, Mondo 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Ear, Artforum, ArtByte, Bookforum, World Art, Whole Earth Review, Reflex, Science Fiction Eye, and Interzone. </span></p> 	 		 		 	 	 		<div class="page" title="Page 248"> 			<div class="section"> 				<div class="layoutArea"> 					<div class="column"> 						<p><b><span>Cory Doctorow </span></b><span>(craphound.com) is a science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, activist, journalist and blogger - the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens novel LI</span><span>TT</span><span>LE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. </span></p> 					</div> 				</div> 			</div> 		</div> 	 	 		 		 	 	 		<div class="page" title="Page 250"> 			<div class="section"> 				<div class="layoutArea"> 					<div class="column"> 						<p><b><span>Rudy Rucker </span></b><span>is computer scientist and science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary move- ment. </span><span>Th</span><span>e author of both </span><span>fi</span><span>ction and non-</span><span>fi</span><span>ction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the </span><span>fi</span><span>rst two of which (So</span><span>ft</span><span>ware and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction webzine Flurb. </span></p> 					</div> 				</div> 			</div> 		</div> 	
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