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. As the official artists' collective
representing Vienna at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group
— Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther 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).
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger - the co-editor of Boing
Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens novel LITTLE 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.
Richard Kadrey 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.
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book
Rudy Rucker is computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary move-
ment. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of
which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.
