Introduction: The Desert of the Real by Larry McCaffery

"Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio " by Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery;

"Beyond the Extinction of Human Life" by Kathy Acker
(excerpt from: Empire of the Senseless ),

"From Crash " by J.G.Ballard,

"Mother and I Would Like to Know" by William S.Burroughs
(excerpt from: The Wild Boys ),

"Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
(excerpt from: Synners ... also contained in the anthology Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling; and in Light Years and Dark edited by Michael Bishop),

"Among the Blobs" by Samuel R.Delaney,

"From White Noise " by Don DeLillo
(extract from the novel: White Noise ),

"From Neuromancer " by William Gibson
(extract from the novel: Neuromancer ),

"Fistic Hermaphrodites" "Microbes" "Penetrabit: Slime Temples" "nerve terminals" poems by Rob Hardin
(...check his homepage)

"Max Headroom" by Harold Jaffe,

"From Straight Fiction " by Thom Jurek,

"The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche" by Richard Kadrey
(excerpt from the novel: Metrophage ),

"Office of the Future" by Marc Laidlow
(excerpt from the novel: Dad's Nuke ),

"I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot" by Mark Leyner
(excerpt from the novel: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist ),

"From Plus " by Joseph McElroy,

"Wire Movement #9", "Wire for Two Tims" prose poems by Misha,

"From Easy Travel to Other Planets " by Ted Mooney,

"Frame 137" comic by Jim O'Barr,

"From The Crying of Lot 49 " by Thomas Pynchon,

"From Software " by Rudy Rucker
(excerpt from the novel: Software ),

"From Life During Wartime " by Lucius Shepard
(excerpt from the novel: Life During Wartime ),

"Stoked" by Lewis Shiner,

"Wolves of the Plateau" by John Shirley
(excerpt from: A Song Called Youth ... also contained in the collection Heatseeker ),

"Twenty Evocations" by Bruce Sterling,

"The Mare Tranquillitatis People's Circumlunar Zaibatsu: 2-1-'16" by Bruce Sterling
(excerpt from the novel: Schismatrix ),

"The Indigo Engineers" by William T.Vollmann
(excerpt from: The Rainbow Stories ),

"Before the Lights Came On: Observations of a Synergy" by Steve Brown,

"The Automation of the Robot" by Jean Baudrillard
(from: Simulations ),

"Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism" by Istvan Csicery-Ronay Jr,

"From Of Grammatology " by Jacques Derrida,

"Yin and Yang Duke It Out" by Joan Gordon,

"Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism" by Veronica Hollinger,

"From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism " by Fredric Jameson,

"Television and the Triumph of Culture" by Arthur Kroker and David Cook
(from: The Postmodern Scene ),

"Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance" by Brooks Landon,

"The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot" by Timothy Leary
(also contained in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design edited by Brenda Laurel),

"The Postmodern" by Jean-Francois Lyotard
(extract from: The Postmodern Condition ),

"An Interview with William Gibson" by Larry McCaffery,

"Cutting Up: Cyberpunk, Punk Music, and Urban Decontextualizations" by Larry McCaffery,

"POSTcyberMODERNpunkISM" by Brian McHale,

"The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives" by Tom Maddox,

"Frothing the Synaptic Bath" by David Porush,

"Literary MTV" by George Slusser,

"Preface from Mirrorshades " by Bruce Sterling,

"On Gibson and Cyberpunk SF" by Darko Suvin,

"The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades" by Takayuki Tatsumi;

Bibliography.

"Cyberpunk's man-in-academe gives his highly postmodern take on matters in this bug-crusher anthology." --Bruce Sterling (1992).

"A good overall sampler of the cyberpunk scene and postmodernism." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).