Larry McCaffery is a literary critic and editor, and a retired professor of English and comparative literature. His many books include Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction and Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors.

"Both the general reader and the academic can learn a great deal here about cyberpunk, the function in SF of sexuality, the roots of the Urth of the New Sun, and much, much more."--Analog"Across the Wounded Galaxies includes the most in-depth and comprehensive series of interviews with SF authors ever published."--Mississippi Review " Unlike those narcoleptic cryptics who nod through the motions of pomo in a prose sterile and besmirched with jargon as that of the most tedious scholarship, McCaffery is locked in a crazy love affair with the contemporary. . . . These interviews are plain fun to read."--American Book Review "A must for the serious student of the genre."--ALA Booklist

• Introduction   1An Interview withGregory Benford   9William S. Burroughs   31Octavia E. Butler   54Samuel R. Delany   71Thomas M. Disch   105William Gibson   130Ursula K. Le Guin   151Joanna Russ   176Bruce Sterling   211Gene Wolfe   233Index   257

Larry McCaffery is a literary critic and editor, and a retired professor of English and comparative literature. His many books include Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction and Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors.

"Both the general reader and the academic can learn a great deal here about cyberpunk, the function in SF of sexuality, the roots of the Urth of the New Sun, and much, much more."--Analog"Across the Wounded Galaxies includes the most in-depth and comprehensive series of interviews with SF authors ever published."--Mississippi Review " Unlike those narcoleptic cryptics who nod through the motions of pomo in a prose sterile and besmirched with jargon as that of the most tedious scholarship, McCaffery is locked in a crazy love affair with the contemporary. . . . These interviews are plain fun to read."--American Book Review "A must for the serious student of the genre."--ALA Booklist

• Introduction   1An Interview withGregory Benford   9William S. Burroughs   31Octavia E. Butler   54Samuel R. Delany   71Thomas M. Disch   105William Gibson   130Ursula K. Le Guin   151Joanna Russ   176Bruce Sterling   211Gene Wolfe   233Index   257

Larry McCaffery is a literary critic and editor, and a retired professor of English and comparative literature. His many books include Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction and Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors.

"Both the general reader and the academic can learn a great deal here about cyberpunk, the function in SF of sexuality, the roots of the Urth of the New Sun, and much, much more."--Analog"Across the Wounded Galaxies includes the most in-depth and comprehensive series of interviews with SF authors ever published."--Mississippi Review " Unlike those narcoleptic cryptics who nod through the motions of pomo in a prose sterile and besmirched with jargon as that of the most tedious scholarship, McCaffery is locked in a crazy love affair with the contemporary. . . . These interviews are plain fun to read."--American Book Review "A must for the serious student of the genre."--ALA Booklist

• Introduction   1An Interview withGregory Benford   9William S. Burroughs   31Octavia E. Butler   54Samuel R. Delany   71Thomas M. Disch   105William Gibson   130Ursula K. Le Guin   151Joanna Russ   176Bruce Sterling   211Gene Wolfe   233Index   257