SOURCE: “Incurably Alien Other: A Case for Feminist Cyborg Writers,” in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, November, 1995, pp. 399-20.

In the following essay, Harper presents an overview of feminist cyberpunk criticism and argues that feminist cyborg literature is the seminal movement in a changing sociopolitical worldview.

Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasn't laughter. He never saw Molly again.—William Gibson, Neuromancer

He stared hard at her. He had never seen—he hadn't expected. He threw his head back—all his white artie teeth showed—his shining carmine gums, amber skin, dark slanting eyes, smooth cheeks. They laughed and laughed together. Female and male, but other than that, the faces mirrors, mirrors of each other. … She spat. I hate hive minds.—Misha, Red Spider White Web

According to Nicola Nixon in “Cyberpunk: Preparing the Ground for Revolution or Keeping the Boys Satisfied?” cyberpunk has not been successful in...