Larry McCaffery > Quotes

“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.”
― Larry McCaffery

“Becoming real simply because he'd appeared on a few thousand TV screens. Growing up with a sense that media events were real, and personal events were not. Anything that didn't happen on television didn't happen. Even as he hated conventional programming, even as he regarded it as the cud of ruminants, still it defined his sense of personal unreality; and left him unfinished.”
― Larry McCaffery, Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction