P.S. For an interesting "take" on how Gibson's characters/novels don't
really "deal" or "play" rhetorically with race/gender issues, there is a
very
good interview with Samuel Delany in the book I mentioned in last posting
- FLAME WARS: THE DISCOURSE OF CYBERCULTURE Fall 1993. ed. by Mark Dery
- it's called "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany,
Greg Tate, and Tricia Rose"... begins to open up these questions quite
nicely...although it's really a take on black s/f writers many of the
issues can be cross-dressed with questions of feminism and of why the
rhetorical strategies and agendas of many writers' "female
protagonists" don't necessarily equal "feminist"...
There's a lot of great stuff in this journal, by the way.
carol.
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