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This research paper: A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares 2 sci-fi short stories. Bruce Sterling in his short story "Flowers of Edo" and Pat Cadigan in "Pretty Boy Crossover" picture characters trying to adjust to change in a postmodern world. While these stories are very different in style and content, they both picture characters having to adjust their conceptualization of reality to new technology and to paradigm shifts that "change everything." In "Flowers of Edo," the artist Yoshitoshi adjusts to the coming of the Westerners and their technology by adopting the new paradigm and making friends with the demon that lives in the telegraph wires. Pretty Boy in Cadigan's story keeps his individuality by choosing to resist the technological enslavement inherent in "crossing over." In both stories, the postmodern approach to these narratives causes the reader to consider and question the nature of reality, as experienced by the characters. No additional sources cited.
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