69685 20180411131042.0 sideral 105072 ART-2017-105072 eng (orcid)0000-0003-2922-9194 Collado Rodríguez, Francisco Universidad de Zaragoza The imperfections of a future past: Trauma, posthumanity, and Sci-Fi in William Gibson’s ‘The Gernsback Continuum’ 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper centers its analysis on the first story ever published by William Gibson, the well-known guru of cyberpunk, and on his presentation there of the first posthuman character in his fiction. This early cyberpunk story, called “The Gernsback Continuum,” unfolds as a temporal recollection of an imperfect future past, an issue that offers the author the opportunity to play with our so far fruitless attempts to ever understand the category of time and thus our own place in the universe. In addition, by looking back and commenting on modernist notions referred to time and memory, “The Gernsback Continuum” takes readers into a political valuation of the present social effects that the combination of traumaand posthumanity have brought forth in present life. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-63506-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Filología Inglesa 37, 166-167 (2017), 177-194 Letterature d’America 2037-6952 791025 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/69685/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 42146 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/69685/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:69685 articulos driver 2018-04-11-11:56:09 ARTICLE