Future of a Commodity, The: Notes Toward a Critique of Cyberpunk and the Information Age

'''Whalen, Terence. "The Future of a Commodity: Notes Toward a Critique of Cyberpunk and the Information Age."' SFS'' #56, 19.1 (March 1992): 75-88.

Marxist critique by an author who knows Marx and recent work on "post-industrial" society; see for W. Gibson's "New Rose Hotel," "Johnny Mnemonic," and (preeminently) Neuromancer; see also for J. Brunner's Shockwave Rider and G. Bear's Blood Music, all cited in CLOCKWORKS.