Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Foreword / Larry McCaffery -- Introduction: Anatomies of Dependence -- Part One Theory -- Chapter 1. Mikadophilia, or The Fate of Cyborgian Identity in the Postmillenarian Milieu -- Chapter 2. Comparative Metafiction: Somewhere between Ideology and Rhetoric -- Part Two History -- Chapter 3. Virus as Metaphor: A Postorientalist Reading of the Future War Novels of the 1890s -- Chapter 4. Deep North Gothic: A Postoccidentalist Reading of Hearne, Yanagita, and Akutagawa -- Chapter 5. Which Way to Coincidence?: A Queer Reading of J.G. Ballard's Crash -- Chapter 6. A Manifesto for Gynoids: A Cyborg Feminist Reading of Richard Calder -- Part Three Aesthetics -- Chapter 7. Semiotic Ghost Stories: The Japanese Reflection of Mirrorshades -- Chapter 8. Junk Art City, or How Gibson Meets Thomasson in Virtual Light -- Chapter 9. Pax Exotica: A new exoticist perspective on Audrey, Anna-chan, and Idoru -- Part Four Performance -- Chapter 10. Magic Realist Tokyo: Poe's "The Man That Was Used Up" as a Subtext for Bartók-Terayama's Magical Musical The Miraculous Mandarin -- Part Five Representation -- Chapter 11. Full Metal Apache: Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo Diptych, or The Impact of American Narratives on the Japanese Representation of Cyborgian Identity -- Conclusion: Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a globalist theme park -- Appendix 1: Toward the Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop, The Correspondence between Takayuki Tatsumi and Larry McCaffery -- Appendix 2: A Dialogue with the Nanofash Pygmalion: An Interview with Richard Calder.
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Compares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan.
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