Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits

Ross, Andrew. Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits. New York: Routeledge, Verso, 1991.

According to Rob Latham, SW "examines various intellectual movements" visible in the 1980s to seek out traces of what AR calls "'the left tradition of technofuturism'" and saw in a tradition from Amazing Stories and, in William Gibson's phrase, "The Gernsback Continuum"—a tradition AR thinks "has gone underground, yielding the global survace to survivalist fantasies like cyberpunk." Rev. of several books relevant for "Cultural Studies and Science Fiction," SFRA Review #198 (June 1992): here, 20-21. See C. Penley and AR, eds. SW also rev. I. Csicsery-Ronay, SFS #58, 19.3 (Nov. 1992): 403-410, cited separately under the reviewer's name, above in this section. (RDE, 03/02/93)