Term of Award
Fall 2004
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature and Philosophy
Committee Chair
David Robinson
Committee Member 1
Marc Cyr
Committee Member 2
Janice Walker
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Holloway, Heather, "Evolution of Cyberspace as a Landscape in Cyberpunk Novels" (2004). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 173.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/173
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
