• Writing Machines: Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship
• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics: René Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998–1999
• Eby Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, UCLA, 1999
• Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1999
• Bellagio Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 1999
• Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Rochester, 1998
• Medal of Honor, University of Helsinki, 1997
• Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Fantastic in the Arts, 1997
• "A Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship at Bellagio, a fellowship at the National Humanities Center and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the University of California."

Books

• Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, 2008
• My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, 2005
• Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.), 2004
• Writing Machines, 2002
• How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, 1999
• Technocriticism and Hypernarrative. A special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 3, Fall 1997 (guest editor)
• Chaos and Order:Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. (ed.), 1991
• Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, 1990
• The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, 1984

Book chapters

• 'The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event,' in New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, Morris, Adalaide, and Thomas Swiss, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
• 'The life cycle of cyborgs: writing the posthuman.' In The Cyborg Handbook, Gray, Chris Hables (ed.) New York: Routledge, 1996. Also available in Cybersexualities, Wolmark, Jenny (ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2000.

Essays

• Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers

Electronic

• Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines, Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, Volume 1 Issue 1 (Evidence).