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• 7 • The Desert of the Real: The Cyberpunk Controversy • essay by Larry McCaffery
• 16 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by J. G. Ballard
• 16 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Greg Bear
• 18 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Something Going On? • essay by Gregory Benford
• 23 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium:Starchilde Harold, Revisited: • essay by David Brin
• 27 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. [as by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay]
• 28 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Is Cyberpunk a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? • essay by Samuel R. Delany
• 35 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Thomas M. Disch
• 35 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: A Letter from Galaxy • essay by Raymond Federman
• 39 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• 43 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Life in Change Wartime • essay by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
• 45 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Foucault the Cyberpunks • essay by Harold Jaffe
• 45 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Marc Laidlaw
• 46 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: What is Cyberpunk? • essay by David Porush
• 46 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Frederik Pohl
• 50 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Tom Robbins
• 51 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk Cake • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 51 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Raising the Level • essay by Rudy Rucker
• 57 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by John Shirley
• 59 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk, The Crowbar of the Present • essay by Lou Stathis
• 61 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Ronald Sukenick
• 62 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Cyberpunk as Roots Music: An Observation • essay by Pascal J. Thomas
• 64 • Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium • essay by Gene Wolfe
• 66 • I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot • short fiction by Mark Leyner
• 70 • The Smoke • short fiction by William Gibson
• 77 • Drown Yourself • short story by Michael Blumlein
• 86 • Among the Blobs • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 93 • Induction • short fiction by David Porush
• 107 • Christmas in Louisville December 24, 2030 • short fiction by Rudy Rucker
• 122 • 20 Evocations • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • short story by Bruce Sterling (variant of Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations)
• 130 • Max Headroom • short story by Harold Jaffe
• 136 • Wolves of the Plateau • short story by John Shirley
• 151 • In a Distant Landscape • short story by Tom Maddox
• 156 • Fistic Hermaphrodites • poem by Rob Hardin
• 157 • Microbes • poem by Rob Hardin
• 158 • nerve terminals • poem by Rob Hardin
• 159 • The Toilet Was Full of Nietzsche • short story by Richard Kadrey
• 170 • Hard Work or, The Secrets of Success • (1984) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 194 • The History of the War Against the Mend-and-Repair • short story by Richard Astell
• 200 • Down and Out in the Year 2000 • (1986) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 217 • An Interview with William Gibson • interview of William Gibson • interview by Larry McCaffery
• 237 • The Wars of the Coin's Two Halves: Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper Narratives • essay by Tom Maddox
• 245 • Bet On It: Cyber/video/punk/performance • essay by Brooks Landon
• 252 • The Cyber-punk: The Individual as Reality Pilot • essay by Timothy Leary
• 266 • Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism • essay by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. [as by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay]
• 279 • Literary MTV • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]