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(En)gendering artificial intelligence in cyberspace.(Critical essay)
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Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
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July 1, 2007
- Author:
- Heuser, Sabine
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ABSTRACTS
Artificial intelligences are an interesting test case for how readers construct fictional characters in SF in general. William Gibson's and Pat Cadigan's post-cyberpunk novels offer a different emphasis with regard to the attribution of gender characteristics because of the way they employ male and female characters in figural narrative situations to focalize the emergence of the new virtual life forms.
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