Evolution of Cyberspace as a Landscape in Cyberpunk Novels

Millions of people enter cyberspace on some level daily. This new technology has infiltrated society rapidly since the first computers were networked. Interestingly, cyberpunk, a sub-genre of science fiction, depicted cyberspace many years before mainstream society had ever conceived of it. This thesis explores the changes in science fictional representations of cyberspace by examining William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow crash. In this work I contrast the metaphysical, found nature of the first cyberpunk representation of cyberspace with the homogenized, commodified reality of the last cyberpunk representation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in English (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Literature and Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2004

Author dc:creator

• Holloway, Heather

Contributors dc:contributor

• Marc Cyr
• Janice Walker

• ETD
• William Gibson
• Neal Stephenson
• Neuromancer
• Snow crash
• Science fiction
• Cyberpunk
• Cyberspace
• Transrealism
• Metaphysics
• Cyberculture
• Punk culture
• Cybernetics in literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/173

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1173