References in Pop Culture and Legacy
McCaffery is briefly mentioned in Raymond Federman's novel The Twofold Vibration, and is mentioned throughout William T. Vollmann's book Imperial. He has also been quoted in an article in The New Yorker about David Foster Wallace's legacy.
He created a theory of media/visual studies about the relation between memory, narrative, and sexuality called "Avant-Porn," as claimed in his introduction to Michael Hemmingson's 2000 anthology, WTF: The Avant-Porn Anthology. a true account. In the dedication to his book, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, Brooks Landon calls McCaffery, "Pomo's Pure Product, Cyberpunk's Critical Case Officer, Avant Pop's Main Man, and SF's Friend in the High Castle".
McCaffery is also author of the popular best of list The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. This list was written in response to Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery saw as "being way, way out of touch with the nature and significance of 20th century fiction".
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