Storming the Reality Studio

This would be a good intro for someone who knew nothing about cyberpunk and its greater context in postmodern literature. However, I had read most of the fiction here before, and the nonfiction essays tended to be a bit beyond me. The book as a whole tends toward the dry and academic and, while you don't need a graduate degree in postmodern literature to follow all the references, I expect it would help. I enjoyed learning a few new tidbits about the predecessors and influences of cyberpunk, and I did discover a few new authors to add to my reading list. The best thing in this collection is the interview with William Gibson, in which he explains his relationship to technology and why the fact that he doesn't know much about computers isn't actually relevant to his stories.