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2022 (2)
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Contrary to what you might believe, it’s not every day that we have creators and artists with cyberpunk clout under their belt asking our seedy little corner of the web for...
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By S. C. Jensen Cyberpunk exists as a kind of liminal space in the imagination, the hazy middle ground where dichotomies come to play. Cyberpunk settings often manage to be...
2021 (10)
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Biosurveillance is the process of tracking medical and health data for clues about a possible health event like an outbreak. Historically, it’s a normal and necessary part of...
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More than any others, one work deserves the qualifier of “post-cyberpunk”: Carbon & Silicon, from awarded French author Mathieu Bablet. However, the label itself has no...
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The cyberpunk of the late 20th century was not just fiction nor just a response to late capitalism, but hidden within cyberpunk lies dormant political theory for the present...
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A little over three and a half solar cycles ago user jbains asked us on how to live a cyberpunk life in the country. This was a subject that connected with me because I have...
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There’s a dangerous contradiction inherent to the Information Age, and one that’s pushing extreme ideologies to the fore. Our access to information vastly outpaces our ability...
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Welcome back to Boss Rush, the only column on the internet that will only stop when somebody buys me Cyberpunk 2077 and a console to play it on. Getting sick of me yet? Then...
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Cyberpunk has given creatives a medium to explore and discuss the possibilities of the future, the dangers and prospects of technological advancement, corporate corruption and...
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Cyberblade: The City of Five Skies is a strong showing from a first author, but I can’t shake the feeling that it needed a little longer in the oven. It has huge ideas and...
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Hello again, you beautiful murderborgs. I know, I know, you’re feeling your programming starting to itch, and if you don’t get your hands on another simulator soon, all those...
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After long last, Neon Dystopia is proud to present our first ever podcast! The L0WL1F3 podcast! A podcast where Oldman Coinops, Shadowlink, and Scum talk news, movies, music,...
2020 (15)
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This is a guest post from our friends over at StoryFix Media. With CD Projeckt Red’s hotly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 on the horizon, it’s time to dive into the shady...
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The time upon us, fellow gaming addicts, to witness the release of the game that will more likely than not break the back of the AAA gaming industry. I’m of course referring to...
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Soylent Green, believe it or not, is the pinnacle of the cyberpunk ethos, and not really about cannibalism (not entirely anyway). For those of you that have yet to watch the...
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By Craig Gordon Cyberpunk music. Which tones and rhythms embody Cyberpunk? Which style defines the genre? As a Cyberpunk, which sound pulses relentlessly through your brain?...
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Submissions are open! What’s different from before? Not much, except now we PAY our writers. Every accepted submission will pay the writer $20 via Paypal. So if your article...
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With soothing synths and killer beats, Kent/London DJ BEKIMACHINE brings a fresh take to the synthpop genre via her new single Saga. Synthpop isn’t something I often frequent,...
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Classics, Class, and Code: The unlikely presence of the ancient world in cyberpunk literature Books & Fiction
Classical antiquity, or classics – the study of the ancient Mediterranean, its history, culture, art, literature – is just about the fanciest thing in the history of the...
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WARNING: We are going to be talking about and showing images and videos of police brutality that may not be suitable for everyone. There is violence. There is blood. We at Neon...
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I arrive in downtown near Rosa Parks Square with fire pulsing through my veins, having never been part of an active protest before. Following a throng of civilians, I soon...
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There is no denying that the Matrix franchise holds an important position in the history of cyberpunk. At the time of its released in 1999, it was the first convincing...
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Close your eyes and picture the nineties. Imagine the Windows 94 logo as if on a black computer screen, jagged with thick pixels and bleached by the bright light of the cathode...
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“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel This quote and the...
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Philip K Dick, The Prolific Science-Fiction Writer Philip K Dick published a whopping 44 novels and 121 short stories before he died at the early age of 53. That’s about 44...
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Somehow, human society has limped its way into 2020. Last year was a particularly prophetic one as far as cyberpunk goes– both Blade Runner and Akira, both staples of the...
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The ending to Matrix Revolutions seemed pretty final, right? And yet, following Hollywood’s penchant for sequels, Variety broke the news last August that The Matrix trilogy...
2019 (42)
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Astral Tales’ new release, The Last Resplendent, marks the end of the Red Iris Saga. Or should I say the beginning? I have presented Astral Tales’ body of work here, but let’s...
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Sometimes, it’s good to kick back and watch a good, old-fashioned noir. Wrapping yourself up in tales about scoundrels, femme fatales, crooks, and regular joes who just found...
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Alexia “Lexy” Ryan is a programmer down on her luck. Despite being genetically engineered with brain enhancements by her her scientist dad, she is merely coding match-making...
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I recently had a chance to play an introductory scenario from the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit—a preview pack for the upcoming new edition of the classic Cyberpunk role-playing...
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Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has eluded me for many years now. After having read, watched, and played through many dystopian worlds, I have finally decided to watch the cult 80’s...
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These days, it’s nearly impossible to find futuristic science fiction that doesn’t include familiar cyberpunk tropes. This is particularly true of sci-fi that takes place on a...
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Because I have nothing better to do than to illegally connect to the ‘net via brain implant in my iso-cube, I like to spend my time researching obscure subjects. The countless,...
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After a grueling night shift in a factory that seems to have more robotic employees than human, you wake coated in sweat. Has it always been this hot this time of year? Your...
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Man, it hasn’t even been a year and Warren Hammond and Josh Viola have given us another blessing in their new entry into the Mars-based cyberpunk series Denver Moon. Including...
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“You work with what you got, not what you hoped for.” – Review of Hotel Artemis (2018) Movies & Anime
The Hotel Artemis is a black-market hospital supplying sketchy high tech services to subscribing members, that is, criminals wealthy enough to pay, with the guidance of the...
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Crossing the Uncanny Valley – Perturbator, Société des Arts Technologiques (Montréal), May 13th, 2019. Music
Perturbator is without a doubt the best known synthwave artist presently active. What is less known, however, is that Perturbator is James Kent, son of Nick Kent, journalist...
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If you think about it, the histories of video game and cyberpunk culture are closely intertwined. Both began gestating in the late 1970s and began leaving their marks on pop...
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While in recent years the E3 conference may have devolved from a beautiful smorgasbord showcasing dozens of new, innovative games worth getting excited over to a deflating hype...
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Hey. Hey kid. You like VR? How about synthwave? Do you like soaring across the vast, vector-graphic landscapes of the Grid? Of course you do, it’s the 21st century. Lucky for...
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“He’s really reaching now,” you’re probably thinking. “He can’t keep reeling in synthpop bands forever. I want more industrial, fucker.” And sure, Metric, the four-piece new...
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“Do I Look Civilized to You?” – the John Wick Series’ Parallels to the Cyberpunk Genre Movies & Anime
I am very, very excited for tonight. I’ve got my tickets to go see John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and am prepared to watch Keanu Reeves do what he does best on the silver...
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We stumble out of yet another sleepless night on the tail of end of a night shift, eyes aching and brain buzzing. How long has it been? Months? Years? We boot up the vid screen...
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Cyberpunk Reality Organ Harvesting: the Latest Horror in Dystopian Reality for Uyghurs in Chinese Concentration Camps Source: Extranewsfeed.com Back in January CNN broke the...
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We got something short and sweet to keep all of our ever shrinking attention spans. News update on the flesh and blood Akira, a new way to play with Altered Carbon, and on...
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Can you hear me? Is this on? Did the pollution and radiation pumping from hearts and minds scramble this transmission? Because we got Aliens coming for you, Megazones to...
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The year is 2020 and since a nuclear terrorist attack on Sarajevo in 2015, the first world has gone in full on surveillance mode. Faces, brainwaves and heartbeats are monitored...
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If you’ve been on any music sites in the last five years, chances are you know about Death Grips. Hitting the music industry like a bat with nails spiked into it through a...
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Welcome back, hackers, punks, loners, and aspiring cyborgs. This past week we’ve been keeping an eye on those who are keeping an eye on us, a proposed bill in California that...
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Through hiccups and crashes and the ever present screeching of white noise we are broadcasting to you from the digital wasteland. We are back to a regular scheduled program and...
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It took me way too long to get around to playing Ruiner. The day it came out I nabbed myself a copy and… let it gather bits on my library’s shelf since. Recently, however, I...
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Fresh off the digital presses (with only a hint of radiation), we bring you the latest in Last Week in Cyberpunk for all your weekly cyberpunk needs. This week we got a fresh...
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I’m not much of a manga reader. For some reason, I find it difficult to focus on digest-sized pages printed in black and white, and sometimes it’s difficult to follow the...
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The beautiful sound of genetic engineering fills your data streams as we upload a new batch of weekly data packets into your headmeat. In this Last Week in Cyberpunk genetic...
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Great news for synthwave fans: indie label FiXT Neon has just given Neon Dystopia the honor of showcasing the first single off Pylot’s upcoming EP. Clean our those earholes of...
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Welcome back to another Last Week in Cyberpunk, where the news is hot but the pixels are cold. This time around we bring you updates from the Yellow Vest Protests, a fresh book...
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Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro, also known as Gunnm (Gun Dream), was one of my early exposures to the cyberpunk genre and at that time in my teens, I fell in love with...
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Welcome back another Last Week in Cyberpunk you technological smooth criminals. We have the latest reason to change every password you have, some good news on the Terminator...
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Trip hop is a tricky genre to get your head around if you’re a filthy casual listener. In more ways than one, it feels like it was beamed back to us from the future–it draws...
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In Slow River we follow the destiny of Frances Lorien “Lore” van de Oest, youngest child of the world-famous van de Oest dynasty and heiress to the family’s corporate empire....
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Welcome back to another Last Week in Cyberpunk, you neon drenched computer junkies. We have another fix for you in the shape of political revolution, some new tabletop games to...
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For a genre that often really tries to ground itself in, if not a realistic, then at least a vaguely probable future, cyberpunk misses more than it hits when it comes to human...
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Hello you beautiful digital angels. We are back with another Last Week in Cyberpunk, bringing you news of the latest massive privacy breach, a killer new short film by Keiichi...
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When the Eye Sees Itself is the debut novel of Eric Borgerson. Released in January of 2018, the story attempts to gel Borgerson’s interests and background in law, political...
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We are back on track punks with this week’s installment of LWIC. We got Cyberpunk Jesus Keanu Reeves back in a new film, some sick video games coming our way, current events to...
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Is cyberpunk a sentient light bulb? – A review of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Books & Fiction
Thomas Pynchon is widely regarded as one of the most influential of American novelists. Famously secretive, little is known of his whereabouts, save from two memorable cameos...
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Sometimes, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes certain kinds of music fall under the cyberpunk umbrella. If the scope is too broad, you risk lumping in modern music...
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Say goodbye to a truly dystopian year, cyberpunks, and say hello to the ominous 2019. Since we at Neon Dystopia (and apparently, the rest of the internet) have been occupied...
2018 (64)
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So last week I spent what remained of my paltry monetary units from my occupation as a corporate wage slave on six pairs of mirrored sunglasses. Why, you ask? Because, dear...
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One experimental, dangerous, and possibly-illegal medical procedure that allows me to download digital information directly into my brain later, I’ve done it. I’ve gotten...
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Just for you punks, I’ve saved the best for last. Since you’ll probably be spending what’s left of your dwindling savings on mass-produced goods in a frenzy of debaucherous...
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In the avalanche of synthwave released in the last decade or so, artists have to be inventive to stand out. Hailing from Spain, Astral Tales had the good idea to tell a story....
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It’s been a long time coming, but at last–at last–I’ve returned from my quest of poring through every last nook and cranny I could find of cyberpunk games under $5 (including...
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Hey punks, this Week in Cyberpunk the story of the rogue scientist in China deepens, we got riots in France that are expected to keep on going, and a lot of new books to keep...
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With 9 tracks of in-your-face darkwave, Varigator’s first album Ritual Debasement is here to spread some sweet electronic corruption. Ritual Debasement. The name caught me...
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The palm stands on the edge of space. The wind moves slowly in the branches. The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down. From “Of Mere Being” By Wallace Stevens You have to...
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Have you sold your ballsack to attend Wreck-Fest X yet? Not to worry, reading Killtopia is the next best thing. No seriously, this psycho fan did it in the first few pages of...
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K.W. Jeter must have been in a bad place when writing his second novelized sequel to the cyberpunk codifier, Blade Runner. I say this because, after a year’s hiatus from...
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Happy Shitgiving! Hope you punks out there had a tolerable holiday. This Last Week in Cyberpunk we are giving you news from this week and last week, covering injustice, genetic...
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KLAX Action News team taken hostage! Eco-terrorists demand halt to construction of nuclear desalination plants off the coast of Los Angeles! Pictures at 11! Norman Spinrad is...
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I spent a long time thinking about what I could say about State of Mind. It’s hard to begin discussing this game without saying too much, but I could also ramble endlessly...
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We’ve seen a lot of changes in 2018, many of them for the worse. There are constant reminders that the shadow of corporate and governmental fascism hangs over us. Technological...
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This Week in Cyberpunk we see the data collection of a nation, the bending media to create a new type of reading experience, some exciting new content coming to Netflix, and a...
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Preface Having dabbled in creative writing, I often find myself dissecting categories of fiction to isolate what makes them unique. It’s my belief that every mode of...
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Back in August, we interviewed Brandon Smith, the sole member of The Anix, about his musical inspirations and his then upcoming album Shadow_Movement. Now unleashed upon the...
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There has been some debate about the nature of politics in cyberpunk. The punk suffix should give it away, but then again, the politics of punk do not form a consensus. Just as...
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Re-watching Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall feels like a breath of canned air from the early nineties. A hulking protagonist, copious amounts of violence, snappy one-liners,...
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Denver Moon: The Minds of Mars is the first installment in the universe of science fiction noir, cyberpunk series Denver Moon, the brainchild of Josh Viola and Warren Hammond...
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There is an outbreak of lethal influenza and people are taking refuge in underground bunkers. We’ve been there before, right? Except for this time, to prevent any form of...
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‘Maybe it was software in my head all along’: A Review of Cyberpunk Dreams: Cincinnati Stories Art & Photography
Cyberpunk Dreams: Cincinnati Stories is a collection of short stories, written and compiled by science fiction writer and game designer, Rob Chant. After a successfully backed...
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Breaking a 7 year hiatus, Zwaremachine is back with their new album Be A Light. Churning out dark ebm/industrial music reminiscent of early Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy,...
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We crossed into the San Francisco Bay across a fog laden bridge and surrounded by the diffuse red lights of brakes from our large numbers of companions on this journey. Over us...
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I step into the maw of the RV that has been the home of the Glitch Mode Decode Tour for the last few weeks. It is parked in a glistening late night San Francisco street, and...
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The year is 2753, and this a story of one woman’s revenge for the loss of her girlfriend at the hands of a mega corporations president. Have you heard this plot before? I hope...
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Oh boy, how long have we been waiting for this? It seems like forever, hasn’t it? But here it is in all its glory, the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay footage. Before you continue, I...
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If you wired in last week, you know everything you need to about the horrific scrap-ridden drug trip that is Tetsuo: The Iron Man. But the copious amounts of body horror don’t...
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Well, well, well. If you caught the first half of this two-parter, then I must be doing something right to have you coming back for more. If you haven’t, well, let’s just say...
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The Anix is a band that have been walking the streets of our cyberpunk present, while creating sounds of the future, since the turn of the century, Y2K itself – the year 2000....
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Longtime readers know we here at Neon Dystopia like to refer to Tetsuo: The Iron Man quite a bit. However, it occurred to me recently that we haven’t given Shinya Tsukamoto’s...
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Haven’t you heard? Cyberpunk is cool now! Cyberpunk is what all the edgy, rebellious kids are into these days. All modern science fiction is, or wants to be, cyberpunk, until...
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I know I promised those of you who commented on the previous articles I’d cover your suggestions months ago, but man, time flies when you suddenly find yourself working for a...
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Back in the year 2000, I was working in a major record store, and everybody was dancing to Madonna’s Music. Well, almost everybody. I, for one, was shaking my booty to a very...
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It’s a rare thing to find media that swims in the murky, mutagen-polluted waters of cyberpunk that doesn’t tackle world-ending stakes—a massive conspiracy covering up the true...
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North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society Books & Fiction
Late in 2017, I stumbled upon a delightfully dystopian piece of nonfiction published the previous year: North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is...
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“Exciting times in the world right now. Exciting times.” -Mr. Robot By day, I live the glamorous life of a clerk in a public library. This fine institution I work at classifies...
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There are some experiences that have to be lived to be understood. Details, feelings, or other sensations are sometimes too abstract to be confined to words, much less fully...
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One of the most exciting artists active today, cyberpunk and beyond, is France-based Japanese visual artist and musician Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966 in Gifu, Japan). In 2014, Ikeda...
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Daniel F. Galouye’s 1964 proto-cyberpunk novel Simulacron-3 takes place in a world where opinion polls are mandatory. As you stroll the sidewalk, someone might come to you with...
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In a quixotesque quest to know everything cyberpunk, I have browsed the list of movies tagged “Cyberpunk” in IMDB. Don’t. Most movies in there are not even cyberpunk (Avatar?...
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Imagine a world where the government has your genetic profile on file before you’ve even committed a crime. This is a world where prevention trumps privacy and your most...
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In 1988, Mark Frauenfelder and his wife Carla Sinclair started a small zine out of their apartment in Sherman Oaks, California. This wasn’t a full-time job for Frauenfelder,...
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It has been five years since our last real glimpse of Cyberpunk 2077. The time has come, and now we have a new trailer. A friend pinged this to me in the early morning hours...
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The time has come. Neon Dystopia has re-emerged from the augmentation tank! We appreciate the cyberpunk community standing by us while we were in stasis. A number of dedicated...
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In the bygone days of 2015, Joshua Viola and Klayton of Celldweller fame hatched a cyberpunk story that brought form to the world that Klayton had been weaving with his music....
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Oh look, apparently Netflix wants to shift their focus on original content from comedy to science fiction. Not surprising, since sci-fi seems to be where it’s at these days....
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Ah, here I am again reviewing a hidden cyberpunk-styled gem for you guys. Yes, it has been a little while, but today I kickstart my reviews with a chunky film that hovers...
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Biopunk is a short film that was released in early 2017 from director Liam Garvo and Dresden Pictures and stars Katie Sheridan and Kristian Nairn (Hodor from Game of Thrones)....
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Despite being an avid Shadowrun fan for years, I’ve never taken the time to read any of the novels set in the universe. Over the holidays, I found myself at my in-laws’ amidst...
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Even if you’re the kind of person who tries their damnedest to remain insulated from our ad-saturated reality, you probably know that the ‘80s are “in” right now. For better or...
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“Alright Sergeant, what are we looking at here?” The crime scene investigators were just getting started, the smell of cordite, blood, and fried electrical equipment still...
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Where have you been? Many of our readers have noted that Neon Dystopia has been on a hiatus for more than a month. This is true, and I want to apologize to our readers, fans,...
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Neoslave is the vibrant musical project from Leander ‘Lee’ Verheyen. Neoslave’s new album FROM WOMB TO DOOM will fill the air with familiar sounds of synthwave, but with a...
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Mujiko naka~tsu – NO ACCIDENT (2012) A soft start for this month’s dossier. Midwest Collective was at the forefront of vaporwave back before it really coalesced and dropped...
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My first introduction to Joshua Viola and Hex Publishers was through the fantastic short story anthology Cyber World. It had that real cyberpunk edge. Now partnered with Warren...
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‘She’s a character in a social narrative with no arc’: A Review of the Marlowe Kana Series Books & Fiction
A couple weeks ago, I received a lovely little pressie from writer Joe Peacock. Opening the carefully wrapped package, I was quite excited to see his first three volumes of his...
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It’s been nearly a year since the facade of leadership and guidance on behalf of the United States’ federal government was stripped away. Now we can see the political machine’s...
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Last Week in Cyberpunk is back. We want to apologize for the absence of this popular column on Neon Dystopia, but you can expect us back on our regular interval. As the year...
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Before I start this review, I want to preface this by saying that I know Bright doesn’t appear to be overtly cyberpunk. There is no matrix, there are no rigs, there are no...
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Of all the cyberpunk magazines I’ve ever come across, Future Sex is definitely the strangest. From the cover of the first issue, you know immediately that you haven’t seen...
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Neofeud, developed by Hawaiian writer, artist and game dev Christian Miller (also known as “Silver Spook”), is, as the title suggests, a point and click adventure game set in a...
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As far as cyberpunk culture goes, I’m a relative newcomer. I was unaware of the consolidation of futuristic, dark neo-noirs and conspiracy thrillers with urban environments as...
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At first, I was hesitant to make a full, standalone article based on online multiplayer games that you can get for free (or next to it) for a few reasons. The first of which...
2017 (142)
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Wow…I did not expect this in the slightest. Originally titled as Cyber God, and then Stephen King’s: The Lawnmower Man (even though it virtually bore no resemblance to his...
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I’ve got a treat for all of you this week. Currently, my list of cyberpunk games for mobile devices has been exhausted, but in my search, I’ve found small pockets of games that...
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Do you like science fiction? Do you like westerns? Do you, my dear reader, also like romance? What about a chimeric fusion of all three, stitched together corpse to corpse? If...
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Gather ’round, script kiddies. Only here will you find articles covering cyberpunk’s most notable games for under $5, and only here is the chaff separated from the wheat. This...
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Hello again my futuristic friends. This time I’ll by discussing my views on the 1983 film Videodrome, written and directed by the master of body horror himself, David...
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I’ve always been partial to the megacorporations in cyberpunk fiction. They are ominous, brooding, reptilian, unwavering in their ethics (or lack thereof) and almost...
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Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 novel Altered Carbon was the defining cyberpunk novel of the 2000s. Now it appears that 2018’s defining cyberpunk television series is going to be...
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Ah, it’s finally here, isn’t it? I finally get to review Johnny Mnemonic! Directed by Robert Longo and adapted by our beloved William Gibson (based upon his short story),...
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If you’ve been keeping up with this series, or if you’re not so suspicious of your tech that it takes more than a couple years to lower your guard enough, you know that the...
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You’re back. Welcome. I knew last week‘s material wouldn’t be enough to keep you satisfied for long. Let’s cut to the chase. You likely clicked on this article because you’re a...
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If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for new cyberpunk games to devour, but also, you’re pretty broke. Even though marketplaces like Steam make gaming an...
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Hello there my fellow fans of the futuristic frenzy that is cyberpunk. I recently had the opportunity to check out Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, from 1988. I really enjoyed this...
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Alan E. Nourse's The Blade Runner, The Novel That Ridley Scott's Classic Film Stole It's Title From Books & Fiction
When you utter the words ‘blade runner’ in any conversation, the average person’s mind immediately jumps to Ridley Scott’s 1982 film, Blade Runner, especially in the wake of...
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In anticipation of the long-awaited follow-up to the genesis of the cyberpunk genre that nobody is watching for whatever reason, I learned of K.W. Jeter’s three novelized...
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Watch any film in Ridley Scott’s Alien or Blade Runner franchises, and you’re bound to notice some common themes. Not least amongst these is man’s search for meaning. Biblical...
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Blade Runner is a special movie for all of us cyberpunks. It was the film that popularised the dank and dark cities of a future that fetishised technology. It was the film that...
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In the final push towards season 3 of Mr. Robot, the New York times published “Rami Malek of Mr. Robot Doesn’t Want to be Alone Anymore.” There’s not much in the way of...
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It’s been a year since I started writing these. I still haven’t been offered a job as a licensed cyberlimb repairman, nor have I taken to operating exclusively out of...
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Born from the efforts and dedication of longtime Neon Dystopia fan, Tim McClelland, Neon Dystopia is proud to announce our first event! The Neon Dystopia Micro Festival is...
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Blade Runner 2049 is breathtaking. It has already been said, but there’s no harm in reiterating: it is an amazing film in so many ways. It works very well alone, and even...
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Introduction Science fiction is plagued by the slow march of time. What might have looked sleek and futuristic ten or more years ago might today look fantastic-but-unrealistic...
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Cyberpunkdreams is the literary cyberpunk world of Rob Chant, a writer and game designer. This is a cyberpunk project that emphasizes the ‘low-life’ side of the genre, rather...
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The highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049 has arrived. As the sequel to one of the most well-regarded science fiction movies of all time, and arguably one of the best movies...
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It’s not uncommon for science fiction to venture into the realm of the quasi-mythological. Tales like Zardoz and The Sword of Shannara take place in distant post-apocalyptic...
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Observer is a dark cyberpunk horror video game developed by the Bloober Team and published by Aspyr, who teamed up previously to bring forth Layers of Fear, another horror...
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You likely are aware by now that Rupert Sanders’ adaptation of Shirow Masamune’s mainstay of contemporary sci-fi, Ghost in the Shell, is a bit of a mess. The cast is...
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The third and final short film, which is available on Crunchyroll, sets the stage for the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 movie is out and already has the cyberpunk community...
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Exceptionalism? What a joke. I get it though, I really do. You’re just a kid and up until now you’ve had a parent or two who’s been telling you that you’re clever and talented...
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We want to apologize for missing last week’s LWIC, and this week we are presenting two weeks of cyberpunk news – sans reality. The wires of reality don’t cease to writhe their...
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2048: Nowhere to Run is the second installment of three short films that bridge the gap between Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 and the original Blade Runner film by...
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Zombies vs Robots: A Cyberpunk Tale of Terror is a novel that attempts to be quite a few things: a literary tale of families within a community, a narrative about a methodical...
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This last week in cyberpunk we saw Google put academics on the defensive, got our contacts stolen, and were reminded that the revolution is still going. Let’s get to the news....
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I recently wrote an article for Neon Dystopia on Mondo 2000, a cyberculture magazine that helped shape the cyberpunk sub-genre. When thinking of Mondo, the first person that...
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2036: Nexus Dawn is a short film by Luke Scott (who directed Morgan) for Denis Villeneuve and provides auxiliary context for the sequel to one of the best cyberpunk movies of...
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It’s difficult to explain Mondo 2000 to someone who hasn’t experienced it before. That’s really what I would call it at the end of the day: an experience. Like a hallucinogenic...
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Lots of cyberpunk trailers this week break up the creeping dread that is the erosion of journalistic freedoms and privacy, but it isn’t all bad. Cyberpunk Reality Ron Wyden...
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The Introduction In my professional life, I teach literature. Occasionally, I will force my students to read Neuromancer. The book tends to confuse my students and often draws...
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Last week in cyberpunk, civil unrest went viral, took a dive into an inventor’s brain, and were told to wait before we’re able to leap a building in a single bound. Cyberpunk...
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This week in cyberpunk, we see the continued erosion of ethics in the US echelons of power, and we Tim Miller, of Deadpool fame, take on multiple classic cyberpunk properties,...
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Attack of the Cyber Octopuses comes from the mind of Nicola Piovesan, who has more than 60 awards and has participated in hundreds of film festivals worldwide. This comes...
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This last week in cyberpunk, cable networks find themselves at the mercy of hackers, experts show just how insecure people should be about election integrity, and there might...
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Our cyberpunk reality is a kind of uneasy mirror of the hacker crackdown of the 90s, and the cyberpunk fictions of our time seem to be a continuous stream of new iterations of...
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“A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!” Take time away from all the ways that we inch closer...
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Altered Carbon hit the shelves in 2002, the first published work by Richard K. Morgan. Making a solid impression as it did so, the book won the 2003 Philip K. Dick award for...
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Cyberpunk news for the week brings us an encroaching police state that falsifies evidence, removes privacy protections, and robs you. On the bright side, we’re giving a front...
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It’s hot. Too hot. Close to the skin, slick sheen of summer sweat hot. The kind of hot that demands an escape from the city, somewhere there’s a cool breeze and a drink with...
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First, I’d like to apologize for the late arrival of Last Week in Cyberpunk this week. Technical issues in the form of a tumultuous transition to a new computer setup left me...
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This last week in cyberpunk we got a much-needed wake-up call from a reporter being fed fake docs, wondered just how much sunlight we’re getting, and heard the first sounds of...
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Things haven’t been easy for Richard Kelly. It can be argued today that Donnie Darko is one of the best, and perhaps the first, cult classic of the 21st century. That came...
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Reality can be harsh, and the reality is that cyber-freedoms are in more danger than ever, but there is still light at the end of the tunnel as long as we continue to fight....
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Cybernetic Punk is an original cyberpunk comic undergoing crowdfunding by artist and writer Scott Austin. Although Austin’s work is heavily inspired by many classic cyberpunk...
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Civil disobedience has changed. While the past year reminded us the will to physically mobilize is still alive, it doesn’t address the rise in political vigilantism. In “The...
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The first time I read anything out of Omni, I probably had a completely different experience than you did. The original run of Omni, the iconic science and science fiction...
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This last week in cyberpunk we witnessed governments behaving badly, the Girl Scouts turning towards the future, and witnessed a seat change in one of the most hated...
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‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.’ – George Orwell, 1949. I’ve been wanting to write this for a long, long time now. Ever...
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Crowdfunding is a distributed fundraising system that closely mimics the ethos of the open source movement and that of the hacker mindset. It then comes as no surprise that...
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Almost no one seems particularly pleased with this year’s E3 (probably because there were more updates to known games than announcements), but that just made it easier to find...
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I’ve been interested in driverless cars ever since I saw Uber’s prototype, Johnny Cab, in the original Total Recall when I was 10. It’s a fascinating thought experiment to sit...
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In anticipation of a new album in 2017, Neon Dystopia looks back at a much-overlooked release from the UK’s legendary Massive Attack. “Take a look around the world, you see...
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This last week in cyberpunk we saw a contractor blow the whistle, were reminded why it’s a bad idea to underestimate the youth vote and heard that an old cowboy is on his way...
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The Veil is a cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game that provides a sandbox for creating and playing in cyberpunk worlds. Created by Fraser Simons who designed, wrote, and...
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Sometimes you want to kick back on a fishing boat, feel the cool evening breeze come off the bay, wait for a bite that never comes and listen to pirate radio while drinking a...
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The global trend toward the normalization of mass surveillance continues while classic cyberpunk is revitalized, last week in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Reality Theresa May is...
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It’s difficult to make a lasting impression. Logan should’ve been just another comic book adaptation to pass on but James Mangold may have changed how these films are adapted...
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One of the many singular delights of new Netflix movie Okja, the first new film from visionary auteur Bong Joon-ho since his cyberpunk classic Snowpiercer, is that it’s nice to...
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Cyberpunk news this weeks goes viral with a video of a king in a sexy crop top, yet another attempt to revive T800s, and the end of consequence in American politics. Stay safe,...
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I was cautiously optimistic walking into Alien: Covenant. Prometheus was no masterpiece by any stretch, and following Aliens the franchise hasn’t really lived up to its...
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In the mid-1990’s, we saw cinema saturated with cyberpunk movies. Some became staples of the genre, while others simply faded into obscurity. Brainscan (1995) combines elements...
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Chelsea Manning is free, Julian Assange has had the charges against him dropped, and the war against transparency has never been stronger. No wonder there is a resurgence in...
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Sipping a cup o’ joe with my eyes glued to the neon lattices of the matrix. I sink in dream and I, myself, am empowered by the electricity in my veins. I am your saviour. I am...
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Cyberpunk news for the week includes a visit from a spy, a nosy pizza shop, and a retired killer (Hail Hydra). Let’s get to the news. Cyberpunk Reality Nixon’s Shadow:...
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The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood and currently airing as a Hulu exclusive, is a 10-episode series by writer and creator Bruce Miller....
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Harsh Reality, the latest short film by writer-director Iain Marcks and Energeia Films, wants viewers to soothe their anxiety away and grin until depression is a faint memory....
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>HELLO >RUN HELLO >RUN ./ >RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN Modular Reaper Imager – 1nh4l3 d34th If you’re looking for slaughterhouse industrial sounds, then Modular Reaper Imager has an...
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“Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.” -Jean La Bruyere, quoted by Edgar Allen Poe in “The Man of the Crowd.” “Everybody need a partner to stand right by their...
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The reclusive Yoko Taro, a sort of anti-Kojima in the Japanese game development scene, updates the NeiR series in a game that pits androids against automatons. Though this...
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There is a whole host of news relating to cyberpunk movies this week, some have officially died and some have moved forward, some have been resurrected. Reality, as always it...
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Neuromancer – Deliberately Counter to American Expectations In the forward to the 2004 reprinting of Neuromancer, William Gibson says that he felt his book would never find an...
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Simulated Living: The Matrix, Existential Nihilism, and the Shortcomings of Technology Movies & Anime
The Matrix. While it works as an allegory for nonconformity, and an army of G-Men that assimilate random civilians into their network, it’s best known for making people...
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It’s not like you haven’t done this before, but there’s an illicit thrill about getting access to music when you’re not supposed to that just doesn’t dim with age. Your contact...
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News this week brings us a dissection of a classic from the creator himself, internet prices may go up while coverage drops, Fancy Bear gets interested in European elections,...
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Unless you lived under a rock for the duration of 2016, you’re probably aware of the fact that the United States elected a new president. Promises of good paying jobs, which...
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Set in a future in which you are either an inhabitant of the Inland or the Offshore, 3% is a Brazilian dystopian series produced by Netflix. While the Inland inhabitants are...
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Megacorporations walk us into our dystopian future, while governments continue oppressive trends and the line between Black Hat and White Hat hackers have never been blurrier,...
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When I discuss my writing, I speak about the writings of Orwell, specifically his novel 1984. I’ve always been partial to dreary texts coated with misery. I’ve always enjoyed...
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Imagine sitting in a seat and looking down at hands that are not your own. You’re wearing clothes that are not your own, and you’ve invaded someone’s personal space. Next to...
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Last week in cyberpunk we saw what happens when a corporation is given a taste of impunity, saw genetic experiments ready for war, and heard a whisper of a Super Nintendo star...
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It has been a long week. After the disappointment that was Ghost in the Shell, I had to perk myself up with a classic—The Running Man. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, The...
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… And for those of you just tuning in, where the hell have you been? You’re streaming live from enndee-dot-enn-yuu, rotating through no less than eighteen different sources....
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Last week in cyberpunk we continued our trudge into the cyberpunk future bringing to life many of the things that science fiction writers warned us were coming. Cyberpunk has...
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Ghost in the Shell Buries its Source Material and Resurrects it in an Entirely New Shell Movies & Anime
The Neon Dystopia team comes together to take on Rupert Sander’s Section 9. Ghost in the Shell is one of the most beloved films in the cyberpunk canon and sits happily...
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This last week in cyberpunk we saw personal data sold off by the government, learned which companies actually care about their users, and found out what it takes to write an...
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Director Mamoru Oshii has a certain apprehension for interviews. The reclusive artist has said that any good artist is a liar, and therefore unreliable in any casual setting;...
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Science fiction, cyberpunk included, has always been a bit of a boys club. Think of the names that we most readily associate with the genre. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling,...
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Is this cyberpunk? Is that? Is it cyberpunk enough? The sameness of the kinds of questions that get passed around online circles about the genre can make anyone sick of...
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This week in cyberpunk is full of familiar titles such as Terminator, The Matrix, the dreaded Ghost in the Shell, BLAME!, Orphan Black, and a few you may not have heard of....
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The Alternative Soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell – with Lennon, Cornelius & the sounds of AI Movies & Anime
The average cyberpunk fan has probably seen both the original Ghost in the Shell anime and its sequel Innocence; if feeling generous, they may have also checked out the 2002 TV...
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With the forthcoming release of Ghost in the Shell (2017) at the end of March, I’ve been preparing myself. I’ve rewatched the 1995 anime. I’ve listened to the soundtrack. I’ve...
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Reboots, revivals, and confusing renewals. People in power seem to be ignoring obvious security flaws but at least you’ll have something to watch while your microwave watches...
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Those of you who have been with us on ND for awhile will remember the genesis of the Cyberpunk Video Game Database. Today, we’d like to announce a huge update and expansion of...
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Here’s a scenario most of us are familiar with, your flight is delayed, and your phone is in the throes of death. You have a plug, but the outlets are not just limited but...
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It is officially Ghost in the Shell month, and though this short trailer has been out for a little while, I thought that it would be prudent to perhaps shine a bit of a light...
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This week in cyberpunk we see a sustained attack on the internet, consumer privacy, but some light in that the internet is being slowly brought to Africa. Ghost in the Shell...
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Neon Dystopia has the honor of premiering the remarkable short film from director David Placer, Genesis. It’s neon-soaked aesthetic immediately pulled me into the world, no...
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When it first debuted in 2015, no one was sure of what to make of a feral-looking girl stalking robot deer before a mechanized dinosaur overshadows her. Was this the future?...
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Imagine a future where brains can be scanned, where personalities and consciousness become simulacra. Let’s take all of the energy and passion of youth and let it loose on a...
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No preamble this month. You came here for the music, and there’s going to be a lot of it. Cyberpunk Community Soundtrack – Volume 6 “It’s a world where you’re judged by what...
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This last week in cyberpunk we witnessed the watchdogs of net neutrality bow their heads before telecom giants, experienced outages in the cloud (thanks to careless techs), and...
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There’s a lot of reasons to hate Uber. Claims of rampant discrimination and sexual harassment by a former engineer, which turned out to be systematic, led to the ousting of an...
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"Game over, man. Game over." A Retrospective of Bill Paxton's Contributions to Cyberpunk Movies & Anime
Bill Paxton is best known within the cyberpunk community as the man who has been killed by a Terminator, Alien, and a Predator (an honor that he shares only with Lance...
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On the July 28th, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault was released to middling affair. The multiplayer only first person shooter took the depth and nuance of...
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Absolute Knowledge, written by independent author Drew Cordell, is the product of a successful Kickstarter project, and is a novel that feels reminiscent of elderly SF. The...
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The future is feeling desperately close this week. There is news of flying cars and dystopian citizen scoring. It is not surprising in our rapidly approaching dystopia (if it...
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Alien: Covenant is Ridley Scott’s newest addition to the Alien franchise. The film acts as a sequel to Prometheus, which hailed Scott’s return to the franchise and explored the...
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Stand Alone Complex : 'Fake News,' Third-Order Simulacra, and the Death of Curiosity Books & Fiction
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex provides a framework for examining the rise of “fake news” in America as a stand-alone complex. The show starts off with the case of The...
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A fan of awesome mid-80’s/90’s science fiction? Techy-savvy enough to own a VR headset (cheap cardboard’s fine if that’s your thing!)? If so, jack into the net and follow me...
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This week in cyberpunk we saw movies of the future made the low-tech way, a vision of tomorrow from our would-be technocrat, and an assassination that has some laughing out...
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APB is the latest in Fox’s crop of tech-thriller shows that attempt to channel cyberpunk concepts while simultaneously discarding what fundamentally makes them cyberpunk. The...
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Valentine’s Day is upon us and I can already feel you scowling as you read. You and I know it’s an empty holiday–most of them are–that give corporations another excuse to get...
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This week in the cyberpunk dystopia that is 2017, there is ample cybernetic implants at play, the surveillance state is alive and well, and the foundations of democracy are...
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Rollerball is one of those special films that needs no introduction. The music. The violence. The macabre and miserable atmosphere. Unlike Death Race 2000, Rollerball contains...
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The classic Death Race 2000 by acclaimed director Paul Bartel, though dated and about as subtle as brick to the head, paved the way for a new breed of dark comedy (and...
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There’s no-one but you and the rats in the alleyway. There’s no camera watching the fire door that’s covered in the same sheen of soot as the rest of the brickwork, and more...
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Many have made light (or should that be neon-light?) of the fact that modern-day Japan and its neighboring countries actually come close to what was envisioned by cyberpunk...
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Game devs make us wait a bit for the next installment in a beloved series, machines cross another medical threshold, and the White House looks to close up the internet. Fuck...
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Incorporated's Capitalist Machinations Gives Everyone What They Asked For, No One is Happy Movies & Anime
After many pointless detours in Ben Larson’s misadventures, Incorporated’s first season finally comes to an end. In “Golden Parachute,” Ben’s sacrifices, his series of lies and...
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Genetic abominations, creation of biometric databases, and a real fight against draconian copyright law line our dystopian reality this week. Big cyberpunk names like BLAME!,...
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When I first saw mention of Attack of the Cyber-Octopuses I can’t say I was enthusiastic, but then I caught a glimpse of the science fiction noir imagery and found my interest...
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As the name suggests, Altered States II transmutes the human race and their surroundings through technology and ambition, leaving behind inhuman creatures looking to survive in...
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Angst is the new single from Damage. This is Damage’s first new single through his new label, Two Gods from the UK. The song, Angst, is a heartfelt expression of the angst one...
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A power exchange puts the world in a new focus, money hoarding is revealed to be as bad as we fear, and a visual artist literally can’t stand it any longer. But there’s a...
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The original translation of Kirtchev’s A Cyberpunk Manifesto, now 20 years old and translated from Bulgarian, is not exactly known for its perfect English. If you are a native...
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The poster child for character writing and world building in anime, both classic and modern, Evangelion reached out and touched a generation of viewers with its crucifix-laden...
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‘Scoring isn’t killing Mr Frankenstein, it’s a part of the race’: A Review of Death Race 2000 Movies & Anime
Though the late seventies is famously known for producing Star Wars IV: A New Hope, earlier SF films in the decade were often dark, grisly and grim stories that were partly...
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As is the norm these days, the recent trailer for the upcoming live action take on Ghost in the Shell garnered both the usual round of cautious optimism and outright distaste....
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Last week was filled with hackers, Russia, and lots of trailers. Our cyberpunk reality feels like it is right off the page of a cyberpunk novel, or a dystopian film, and that...
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Incorporated’s political messaging has taken a backseat as the show turns expositional. After learning of Laura’s rescue at the hands of Julian, and how Spiga’s top security...
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I was excited for this one. Very excited. And it’s hard to not be excited when peering into the beautiful cover of the second issue of L0WL1F3, with Luke Molver’s stunning...
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Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater Cyberpunk is a genre that is dominated by white male writers. Due to this situation, despite being true of all science fiction, I am always...
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There’s no ceremony when unix time clicks over to 1483228801. Welcome to 2017. Please applaud. Fortunately where a change in date and time has failed to deliver a cause for...
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(Source: Cyberpunk Mag 2004, Artist- de4m) It was Valentine’s Day in 1997. Many of us were already cemented in our love of cyberpunk and cyber-culture was in full swing. Then...
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Cyberpunk’s first full week of 2017. Finland tries to set a precedent, robots get jobs in Japan, and workers fall off the map. Let’s see how much closer we’ve marched towards...
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It is the final week of 2016. The world is more cyberpunk than ever, and we can be sure that 2017 will bring more of the same. In these final days of the year, cyberpunk is...
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Though it’s been explored on Incorporated before, the sole focus of “Profit and Loss” was the construct of debt. It’s finally revealed to be at the center of the inciting...
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Cover art of Control Theory. Written by independent SF writer, Pedro Iniguez, Control Theory is, unlike the novel I previously reviewed, a serious hard-boiled detective fiction...
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William Gibson is heralded as the creator of the genre of cyberpunk through his novel, Neuromancer from 1984. Being the “Father” of cyberpunk, then, it is no surprise that...
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The state of cyberpunk this Friday brings us an undeniable link between private intelligence and government policing, a respectful view of one of cinema’s greatest feats, and...
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Incorporated drops all pretense in the earliest moments of “Cost Containment”. While I don’t expect anything to be as great as Inazagi’s Officer Bucky vid for the company kids,...
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2016’s been a good year for games, and we’re betting there are some you may have missed. We went through everything the last 12 months had to offer and picked eight of the best...
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Blade Runner is one of the most iconic films ever. Not even as simply a science fiction film, but all film. So, it isn’t surprising that in this reboot/sequel happy era that we...
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FOX has an appalling reputation when it comes to science fiction. Very few genre shows have survived beyond a first or second season on the network. Firefly and Dollhouse, from...
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This week in cyberpunk we see Facebook making advances in virtual reality, criminal hackers are brought to justice, and just nominations for cyberpunk in the Golden Globes....
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Trista is a new comic from one of the creators of Metal Made Flesh, Jeremy Biggs of Subversive Comics. Metal Made Flesh has been a high point in the cyberpunk resurgence, and...
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This week in cyberpunk we saw Automation kill service jobs and the inspiration of cyberpunk classics while listening to a little Rolling Stones. Here’s what happened this last...
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A couple of interesting things were highlighted in “Downsizing” that tells us how the Incorporated future came about. It starts with Aaron/Ben watching his father jump off a...
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Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror has cemented itself in a post-cyberpunk world of black and gray, where people have merged with tech that’s either already with us or just a...
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It’s December, but you wouldn’t know it by the light of the screen. Instead you’re indoors with a UV lamp and a dying monitor trying to coax out the words on your screen:...
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Westworld’s worst-kept secret finally exposed, but having theories confirmed about where the Man in Black and William intersect didn’t pull away focus from the robot revolt...
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The short films of Benjamin Bardou capture a kind of melancholy from within the virtual urban landscape of Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City. Bardou cites his influences for...
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This week in cyberpunk, we see a return to the literary roots of the genre with a slew of new novels. While you are distracted by your new reading, there is plenty going on in...
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Incorporated might come off as a fundamentally different show than it might have intended, now that the post-election haze has faded for most and they’re joining those who’ve...
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The Past Inside the Present is twelve minutes of intense Phillip K. Dick-esque imagery. The first time I watched the film, I wasn’t prepared for the unabashed surreality of it....
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Westworld’s game between gods and their creations is one without winners. But for the playthings of genius men, given the opportunity to shine brightly themselves, the...
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This last week in cyberpunk journalists have been targeted by spies, ATMs vomit money on European streets, space is once again unsafe, and cable news tries to hide it all from...
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Need some new shirts to wear while hacking into corporate systems? We are having a Black ICE Sale. All of our shirts will be on sale for $18 and all of our posters are on sale...
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William S. Burroughs' A Thanksgiving Prayer: Thanks for the Last and Greatest Betrayal of the Last and Greatest of Human Dreams Books & Fiction
William S. Burroughs, most famous for his novel Naked Lunch, is often cited as a major influence for the original cyberpunk authors such as William Gibson and John Shirley. His...
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Since its stealthy debut on the Ubisoft stage of E3 2012, Watch Dogs wowed audiences with a world of aggressive hackers up against corrupt politicians and enterprising...
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With the season closing up, Westworld inflicts a little pain to remind us of the cost that comes with being conscious. Westworld: “Trace Decay” (HBO) With Theresa gone and...
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Overall, cyberpunk themes — mainly when it comes to the genre’s most important works — have been one of dystopia. One of technology gone rogue, of the population and the world...
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This week in cyberpunk we see some amazing stylized cyberpunk from art to film, and we were also reminded that the computer that we carry in our pockets amounts to being a...
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Corporate power will decide the future of Westworld, and when the cards are laid bare not everyone will believe what they’re seeing. Others might not see it coming at all....
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In the last year, the Ghost in the Shell live-action adaptation has been controversial within the cyberpunk community. Concerns have mounted over whitewashing,...
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When Neuromancer came out in 1984 the word “cyberpunk” had not yet come to be associated with a new literary movement. The gears of the cyberpunk movement began to turn with...
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Rough week. 2016 has been a rough experience for all of us, but this past week in global affairs has more than most panicking. Don’t. Be aware, be awake, and catch up on what...
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In 1984, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer took the science fiction world by storm. Cyberpunk was here to stay and in 1986, with the illustrious Bruce Sterling at the helm,...
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Westworld ignores the maze and remembers its characters. Corporate espionage materializes as a definite threat and hosts claim their lives at the expense of Delos’ interests....
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Body horror is a horror genre that is defined by graphic destruction, degeneration, or transformation of the human form. David Cronenberg is considered the master of this...
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The witching hour is behind us. Halloween is over. The tide of scary clowns with rubber masks over robot faces has receded from our shores and as we pick through the wreckage a...
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This week in cyberpunk we see moves toward great automation of transit and war. We also see cyber attacks on infrastructure, threats of cyber attacks on US elections, and an...
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Has there been a day since the advent of social media where any of us have been able to get online without encountering someone’s outrage? Or, more correctly, have we ever been...
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William Tecumseh Sherman told us that “war is hell” during the Civil War. Ron Perlman’s been telling us that “war never changes” since 1997. Luckily for me I live in a place...
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‘I can buy you, grow you, sell you, cut you into bits. Your screams: my music’; A Review of Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Books & Fiction
Though published in the mid-nineties, Sterling’s compendium Schismatrix Plus includes the Schismatrix novel itself, along with several shorts and prose pieces that add to his...
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Hosts and guests alike are on the hunt for the elusive maze, some aware, others strung along, but all will find themselves doing the unthinkable in order to reach their...
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Cyberpunk, as an intersection of man and machine, can take abstract forms, digging deep to force nightmares to the surface. Some from the west, a few gems from Japan–there are...
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This past week in cyberpunk we witnessed conglomerates and police getting a little too well connected, a coded justice, and a Jester who isn’t laughing. Let’s get to the news....
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Happy National Cyber Security Awareness Month! I’m late, I know, but I didn’t know this was a thing. Apparently it has been a thing for every October since 2004. But it...
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For over three decades, the legendary Front Line Assembly has built its timeless music legacy with powerful, challenging sounds on themes such as futurism, transhumanism, and...
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Video games–if you’re one of our regular readers chances are you’re also a fairly consistent gamer. Though, technically, nearly everyone falls into that category now. Thanks to...
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Westworld gets a little confused about which direction it’s going, if there are things we’re ready to see or if we should stumble in the darkness of machines’ minds. Men cross...
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I’ve quit Facebook. In a different reality that wouldn’t be worthy of an opening sentence in any article, but since leaving not a day has passed without someone messaging me to...
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The Internet comes under massive attack, the US Government declares the future dystopian, and cyberpunk media continues to help paint this possible future, this week in...
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Time goes fluid this week on Westworld, giving things a bit more clarity while introducing a whole new set of mysteries. Just remember, these hosts are not real. They’re not...
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Finding cyberpunk miniatures for role-playing games like Cyberpunk 2020 or Shadowrun can be frustratingly difficult. There are a fair amount of science fiction miniatures out...
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Tokyo, 2517 – Welcome to the world of Scandroid. A future where the floating city of Neo-Tokyo cast a dark shadow of the dark, robot city of Old Tokyo. It is in the neon-lit...
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Super-powered bugs, a future in the stars, and repairing damaged bodies with inventive technologies. News doesn’t seem so bad this Friday, so let’s take a look at what happened...
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2016 is the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. For 50 years, we have had our screens graced with a vision of humanity that is hopeful and believes that we will be able to overcome...
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In Cyberpunk we’re usually experiencing a world where high technology is more than a way of life. It’s everything. The world spins, and spins, and spins, because technology...
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Endless reboots and hardware swaps, still deleted files have an impression in Westworld. New faces emerge as chaos brews, and old players just want to know how to enter the...
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Cold War tensions return while simultaneously AI chat-bots dominate the news. We see more information about Battle Angel Alita and Blade Runner 2 finally has an official title....
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As we approach Neon Dystopia’s 2-year anniversary in November, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve opened our own online store! You’ll find specially commissioned cyberpunk...
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Roleplaying with a guy named Bino Prassa, a tall goth dressed all in black with a mohawk, I didn’t expect to discover a cyberpunk musician. Wandering around the apartment while...
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Those of you who had the opportunity to read our interview with Mike Pondsmith, already know that one of the major inspirations for the classic cyberpunk game, Cyberpunk 2020,...
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“Battle of Lights, Coney Island”, by Joseph Stella Think about an artistic movement that praised the machine, technology, and speculated about the future: that saw in those the...
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Westworld is HBO’s ambitious foray into sci-fi, hoping to mirror past success in crime and fantasy drama and achieve even more awards and acclaim in this golden age of...
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On the back of last month’s Cyberpunk Music Dossier here’s this month’s Cyberpunk Music Dossier. Assembled from hastily-plastered flyers found on digital billboards across the...
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Cyberpunk news over the past few days has brought us eSports, impressive hacks and 400lb people in bed. So don’t lock yourself way and hide. Come check out what happened this...
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A Brief Overview of Hypnospace Outlaw for PC/MAC/LINUX; ‘Bedtime just got a whole lot HYPPER!’ Cyberpunk Games
The year is sometime in the 1980’s, possibly mid fantasised 1990’s. The world remains pixelated, and you, my friend, are the newest Hypno Enforcer. Developed by Jay Tholen,...
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If you read our recent interview with Ren Warom then you’ll already know that I love Escapology. It is one of those rare books that manages to cram a great deal into far too...
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Outland Industries is the Klayton version of Toha Heavy Industries from Tsutomu Nihei’s works. Toha Heavy Industries is a monolithic corporation that shows up across Nihei’s...
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This week in cyberpunk the mega-corporations are out in force, but at least we have excellent media distractions to keep our minds busy. Ghost in the Shell, The Machine, and...
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Mr. Robot’s kept things from us. It began much sooner than we thought. Signs were missed, clues ignored, all because we were too distracted by what was in front of us, never...
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Josh Finney is the cyberpunk comic book creator who brought us Utopiates, which we recently wrote about here. Together with the co-creator of Utopiates Kat Rocha, they created...
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Your cyberpunk news this Friday includes some junk software, bad laws, dangerous corporate mergers, and a whole lot of hacking going on. There’s so much to get to, so let’s see...
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Are you red or purple? A 1 or a 0? Dreaming or here with me? Mr. Robot doesn’t sleep, even if he’s not here. Maybe we can’t afford to either. Mr. Robot: “eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z”...
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In June of this year Titan Books published Escapology, the debut novel from British author, Ren Warom. The story of an A Grade hacker crippled by addiction and shit luck, and...
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1995’s Judge Dredd suffers from many of the same issues that the new Star Trek reboots have had to deal with. Although the movie is entertaining, it is not honest to the source...
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The old Blade Runner is new again, not to mention a director who all to aware of the legacy he is faced with upholding. Lots of news in the cyberpunk media this week and as...
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Mr. Robot steps aside so lovers can embrace in peace as the darkness that follows revolution encroaches, but helping hands are there to help drag us back to reality. Mr. Robot:...
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‘What could be a more genuine case than a murder investigation?’: A Review of Independent Investigators Inc. Books & Fiction
I should’ve known what I was in for when I picked up Independent Investigators Inc. I should’ve known after I read the title. I should’ve known after poring over the cover. I...
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Neuromancer was a work of incredible imagination and creativity. The novel has become iconic of the cyberpunk genre and has a serious series of accolades to accompany its...
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The legendary cyberpunk Michael Pondsmith, commonly known as Mike Pondsmith or Maximum Mike, is best known for creating roleplaying games like Cyberpunk 2020. Pondsmith has...
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In an effort to keep things fresh we’re trying a new format for our music reviews. Our monthly roundups will give you insight into new submissions and findings from around the...
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Street artists may be able to run, but hackers can’t seem to escape the law. This is what happened last week in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Reality Guccifer Gets Sentenced Marcel...
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The hit to the economy is testing the government’s ability to manage the day-to-day needs a country has, like keeping the lights on. But corporations still manage to flex a...
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Eliot Peper is a novelist and start-up strategist living in Oakland. Oakland then, unsurprisingly, is the setting for his excellent cyberpunk novel Cumulus (which we reviewed)....
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Cyberpunk is not and never has been a retrofuturistic genre. Cyberpunk has always been about our future, not a future once imagined. Retrofuturism is defined as “a trend in the...
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Adaptations and remakes dominate our cyberpunk world this week. Is our stagnation in innovative film a sign of our greed ridden cyberpunk world? It is not surprising that the...
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While Mr. Robot and Elliot spend their last few hours of incarceration in silence, fsociety fractures as the shit hits the proverbial fan. Things get dangerously real, and it’...
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Bluescreen is one of those novels that I picked up based on the cover. The title, Bluescreen, immediately tells you there is going to some kind of computer crash, in this case,...
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Sean Nolan is the author of a short story collection called Shades of Grey. It was released in 2011 as Occupy Wall Street was rising to its heights. Shades of Grey’s themes...
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We all know the text. We all know about William Gibson, the supposed Elvis of cyberpunk. But for those punkers who don’t, Neuromancer was an underground success, depicting the...
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Deus Ex took an eight-year hiatus before returning with Human Revolution. Now controlled by Eidos Montreal, this installment features new locations, factions, and protagonist...
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Two years after the release of Deus Ex, the world is a fundamentally different place. Terrorism has attacked the United States in a dramatic way, war has spread again in the...
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As the manic panic of the new millennium began to pull back into the sea of collective paranoia, Deus Ex reminded players of the many needs to be wary of in a tech-driven...
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This Last Week in Cyberpunk, the US government distances itself from some corporations and gets closer to others. Cyberpunk Reality NSA Hacking Tools Leaked The National...
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I think it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that almost every one of our readers has had some experience with Deus Ex in the past.The premise alone launched many of us into a world...
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Mr. Robot tests the relationships between masters and their slaves as Elliot proves to be stronger than he thought. But having friends close by never hurts. Mr. Robot:...
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Damage, aka Máriusz Bari, is a Hungarian cyberpunk novelist, journalist, and musician. He is best known for his novel, Damage Report (which you can download for free here if...
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We all love to root for the underdog, and the anime Under the Dog is no exception. Under the Dog is an anime that was conceived in the 1990s by Jirō Ishii as a spirtual...
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Tsutomu Nihei returns with his newest manga since Knights of Sidonia (Sidonia No Kishi), a one-shot manga called Country of Dolls (Ningyou no Kuni). Nihei is best known for his...
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HKE is a slippery fella. No sooner have you pinned him down than he’s gone again, lurking somewhere in the ether behind a vaporous cloud and a double-dozen masks. With...
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L0wl1f3 is the brainchild-zine of editor Steven J. Matos; an unsleeping punker born in what he calls, the bowels of New Jersey. It is a brand new zine, and something I was very...
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This week in cyberpunk we get a sneak peak at some upcoming cyberpunk/dystopian television alongside developments in our world that not so long ago would have been firmly in...
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Did you join the Aldersons on their annual family road trip? Mr. Robot tries to keep everyone distracted from his cancer, Mrs. Alderson is up to her usual tricks, and Darlene...
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It’s been a rough decade for video game developer and publisher Nintendo. Despite defining the medium over 40 years ago, Nintendo has been overshadowed by corporate giants Sony...
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Early last year indie developers Postindustrial Games announced Human Interface Nakamura Tower, their forthcoming cyberpunk hybrid boardgame. As a casual gamer with a love of...
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Climate change takes lives, cops cozy up to tech to launch precrime, and hackers slide in your DMs. This is what happened last week in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Reality Deaths Hit...
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Mr. Robot forsakes psychological horror for political intrigue and ticking clocks, but with time running out and the FBI drawing near can fsociety pull it together fast enough...
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Josh Finney and Kat Rocha’s Utopiates by title alone tells you what this comic is about. One of the reasons that opiates are so addicting is that they instill a feeling of...
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Acheron Rising is a cyberpunk web series being developed by Brent Radford and Lucien Soulban. Radford and and Soulban have been steeped in cyberpunk since their early lives and...
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The Automaton Sequence: 5.0: ‘It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves’; The Human as Machine Movies & Anime
‘We are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.’ Donna Haraway, pp. 158 As the Automaton Sequence comes to an end, I...
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This week in cyberpunk, advances are made in advanced technologies for human augmentation. It is no surprise that with large scale augmentation on the cusp of reality, that...
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’80s slasher flicks, freak-outs out in server rooms, and shitty parents–Mr. Robot takes Darlene and Elliot to the past and gives us a glimpse of fsociety’s origins. Mr. Robot:...
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Cumulus is a book that is firmly rooted in our coming future, just as Gibson’s vision was. According to Eliot Peper, the author of the independently published Cumulus, within...
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Following the successes of Anime in their catalog (whether or not they are actually originals), Netflix has released a trailer for what is a beloved manga, BLAME! I will admit...
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The Automaton Sequence: 4.0: ‘If a male god created the world, then he certainly created woman first’; The Female Robot in Metropolis Books & Fiction
For the past four weeks, I’ve taken you on an exciting robotic adventure. From defining what the robot is, to understanding the anxiety that comes from facing one’s creation....
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Governments and corporations exert power over information and hackers strike back with malicious infiltration and interesting conversation, all while Mr. Robot tries to get us...
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With a wider focus set to capture its growing cast, Mr. Robot reminds us that everyone is lonely and miserable, and the harder you work to fix things the more you fuck it up...
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L1, L1, L1. Three consecutive dashes slam me around three different waves of projectiles. The knight clad in neon armor braces for another assault but fails to reach his mark...
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It’s April 1st, 1983, a full year before the release of Neuromancer. Across Japan, TV sets are idly tuned into the premiere of Ryosuke Takahashi’s Armored Trooper Votoms, a...
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Unreliability and action with real jeopardy is what made this show work, and Esmail's kept true to that with gaps in exposition that informs just enough to keep us watching...
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Ridley Scott’s legacy dominates the headlines this week with news about both of the upcoming Alien films, as well as more news about the sequel to Blade Runner. Cyberpunk Now...
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No More Heroes: The End of History and the Death of the Idealist Havel addresses supporters after the Velvet Revolution (December 19, 1989). Intro: Elections in the US and the...
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The Automaton Sequence: 3.0: ‘You are my creator, but I am your master’; Robot Anxiety Books & Fiction
And so here we are, the dreaded Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus week. For the purpose of this article, I am referring to Mary Shelley’s opus, and to a lesser extent...
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La Jetée is a short film, written and directed by Chris Marker in 1962, that is best known for inspiring Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and subsequently the SyFy television series....
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Drone is a short animated film that despite being very post-apocalyptic manages to nail cyberpunk. The creators, Connie White, Vicky Stephen, Magda Radoch and Stephen McAdam,...
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Welcome to the Cyberpunk Now. Robots patrol the streets, kill criminals, and make you burgers. Robocop anyone? Cyberpunk Reality Dallas Police Deploy Robot to End Standoff A...
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Blade Runner has become an iconic title not only in cyberpunk circles but in circles of all kinds. Even if someone hasn’t seen the movie, they’ve heard of it. For those of us...
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R.O.T.O.R. (aka Blue Steel) is a low-budget action film from 1989 that was produced, written, and directed by Cullen Blaine. When one man is responsible for so many roles on a...
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The Automaton Sequence: 2.0: ‘Go, Adam, go, Eve. The world is yours’; Rebellion of the Robot People Books & Fiction
Moving on from last week, we’ll be delving deep into one of my favourite roboty texts, and analysing specific themes and motifs about the representation of the robot. I...
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This week I took a break from my diet of Moby Dick and compulsively refreshing the JOC (journal of organic chemistry) ASAPs to indulge in the taco bell of literature: the short...
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Our reality continues to march blindly into the cautionary territory of cyberpunk dystopias. The most progress this week seems to be in the field of artificial intelligence....
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Looking for something a little out of the ordinary? Like a little weirdness in your books? How about a touch of cosmic horror in amongst the hacking and double crossing? Do you...
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To ask the question, what is a robot, may, to some people, indeed sound overly simplistic, or even pointless. We all know what a robot is; it is a mechanical tool used to...
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It bewilders me that people see a strict separation between the subgenres of biopunk and cyberpunk. Cyberpunk fiction has always had a healthy dose of biological technology....
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At first glance Ridley Scott’s Alien, from 1979, is easy to dismiss from discussions about cyberpunk. When perceived as a movie about an alien stalking the crew of a spaceship,...
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There was a whole lot going on last week in cyberpunk news. Cyberpunk Technology Hyperloop Sets off for Moscow After its successful test in Las Vegas Elon Musk’s conceptual...
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“Press play,” says a youthful digital voice. A VST choir begins to sing. A gentle melody chimes. This is our introduction to James Ferraro’s Human Story 3, a “dialectic on the...
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When William Gibson said, “The street finds its own uses for things,” he was talking about ordinary people taking outdated technology and repurposing it for a different than...
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Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst is a complete reimagining of the 2008 fan favorite that takes it’s concept of movement as weaponry by allowing players to apply extreme sports to an...
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The term sprawl is more commonly associated with Gibson’s Sprawl series, and his imaginings of a highly technological cityscape that swathes the populous, still...
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In the season finale to Orphan Black’s fourth season, Cosima and Susan’s plan succeeded. With Kendall’s genome recreated, they now have a cure. Cosima tries to tell Sarah the...
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Last Week in Cyberpunk is a new weekly article that Neon Dystopia will be publishing on Fridays. Our goal with this article to provide ongoing news to the cyberpunk community...
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Simulacra and the Multitudinous Self: Postmodern Portrayals of Cloning and Existentialism Intro: Perhaps the earliest understanding of simulacrum can be linked back to the...
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The Long Tomorrow by Dan O’Bannon and Jean “Mobius” Giraud is a 16-page comic from 1975 that changed science fiction forever. It became a visual reference for some of the most...
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Rick and Morty is a very dark and existential multiverse-spanning science fiction comedy created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, for those who don’t know. The comic, however,...
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In Orphan Black most recent episode, Evie Cho fosters some good will with the press after promising to bring Bright Born (and jobs) to her impoverished hometown of Tisdale....
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According to Tor.com, it’s cyberpunk week, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with a review of the latest issue of cyberpunk anthology Machete Girl. Issue 08.4...
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You wade ashore, half-drenched and foggy from the effects of space travel. In the sea behind you, thousands of empty pods just like the one you crashed in on bob silently,...
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One of my favourite things about electronic music is how well it lends itself to concept work. Whilst many a good concept album has been created in a more traditional band...
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This week on Orphan Black, Evie Cho can’t wait to exercise her will over Neolution, and Duko goes on the hunt to begin the cull of the troublesome Ledas. With Donnie in jail...
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I used to work at a bookstore. I woke up early. Brushed my teeth. Ate something resembling breakfast. Travelled via bus for over an hour. Bought coffee. Drank coffee. Opened...
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So you’ve watched Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell, and you want to live that life. You want to type with a thousand fingers! Well, that may not be possible yet, but you can...
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Mind as Computer: Subjective Realities and the Programmable Mind Intro: The most common portrayals of computer hacking and engineering seek to remove human elements in favor of...
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The 3rd Letter is a short film created by Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Bastiaan Koch. Jonkajtys has worked on films such as Sin City and Terminator Salvation in the visual effects...
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Cyberpunk is intrinsically linked with electronic music and synth experimentation. For a movement so interwoven with digital tropes and hyper-technologies it makes a lot of...
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‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…’ Roy Batty, Blade Runner 1982 Many of us understand that with George Lucas’ Star Wars, SF became Hollywood’s new thing, and was...
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Major plot points move at a crawl this week in Orphan Black as Sarah and Cosima get a little self-destructive following a death in the family. Sarah leaves home when Mrs. S...
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Victor Love is a cyberpunk musician who is best known for his work with the band Dope Stars Inc. In recent years, Love has been working on solo projects like Hacking the Wave...
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Vagrants cluster around an oil drum fire with their backs to the cold night of the city. Environmental sensors that ought to sniff out smoke and flame dangle above, the...
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Homefront: The Revolution is the first attempt from developers to revitalize franchises bought from THQ’s fire-sale before they went under. And while the original Homefront...
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This week on Orphan Black, Cosima’s medical condition scares her good and she decides, with Sarah, to hand over Kendall’s genome in exchange for a cure and one cheek-parasite...
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The Alien franchise, from Ridley Scott and Dan O’Bannon, is generally accepted to be cyberpunk. There is even evidence that Blade Runner and the Alien franchise take place in...
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After three weeks of dragging its feet, Orphan Black finally picks up pace and exposes a little more of Neolution’s plan with a generation of IVF babies, and some interesting...
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Pour yourself a soycafe from the jug in the breakroom, detective, and do it quick. The lieutenant’s looking for you, and the rumour is that it’s bad news. Police Heartbreaker...
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What do you believe about nuclear disarmament? Do you believe there are ethical imperatives? Tyler Haynes directs and stars in AFK_, a short film that tries to answer those...
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The premise of Urbance, an animated show from the mind of Director Joel Dos Reis Viegasis and Steambot Studios, is that a disease, called the E1 Virus, kills anyone who has...
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Cities locked in perpetual night, populated by nameless silhouettes eating prepackaged food. Reminders of corporate masters and a dying planet circle overhead, projected from...
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After the last episode of Orphan Black, where a deal was made with Ferdinand, Sarah agrees to give Mika Rachel’s message with the intent of locating Susan, who’s perhaps the...
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Technomancy is the newest album from Victor Love, and his second solo album. If you aren’t familiar with Victor Love, you might know him as the lead singer for Dope Stars Inc....
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If you ask a cyberpunk fan “What kind of food is cyberpunk?” they will probably tell you Ramen, Instant Ramen, or simply noodles. There are a number of reasons for this,...
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Proof of concepts can sometimes be the most intriguing shorts, because we know that they are merely an example of potential. David Karlak sold his action/sci-fi concept Rise to...
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As this season’s subplots set themselves up, giving each of the sisters something to do, we see echoes from another biopunk show from some time ago and it’s leaving things on...
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Introduction Listening is a cautionary science fiction tale about the dangers of developing a technologically based telepathy. The movie is the directorial debut of Khalil...
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Whilst scouring Bandcamp for new music, I stumbled across The Night Wars ‘Cardiac Cats’, a fantastic piece of ambient electronic futurism (review coming soon). I was unfamiliar...
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With Neolutionists back on the hunt for the sisters, Sarah and the family are forced out of Iceland and back to Canada where there’s a big reunion with the other clones....
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Today sees the release of an announcement trailer for Ruiner, a brutal story-driven cyberpunk shooter from developer, Reikon Games. Here’s what they have to say about it: “set...
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The journey is long and arduous, but you don’t know what that means because you’re seven years old. Your mother said the word earlier and it stuck with you. You’ve been...
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Eight years have passed since the original Mirror’s Edge debuted as a launch title for the PS3 and Xbox 360, and now DICE is rebooting the franchise, taking full advantage of...
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When you hear the word Soylent what immediately comes to mind is the 1973 movie Soylent Green. After all, who hasn’t heard the famous line, “Soylent Green is people!” as...
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Season 4 of Orphan Black takes the sisterhood back to a time before Sarah came back to town and discovered her clone platform jumping before an oncoming train. A lot of old...
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We were first introduced to the Night Driving Avenger in March of 2012 with the release of Perturbators first EP appropriately titled, Night Driving Avenger EP. Since then, the...
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When you are ready for a run you put on Wouter Visser’s M A I N F R A M E D. A band from the Netherlands, it puts you in the mood. The run was flawless – you barely even...
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When cyberpunk emerged in the 1980s it didn’t come into existence from a vacuum. Previously authors like Phillip K. Dick, K. W. Jeter, Vernor Vinge, and J. G. Ballard had begun...
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In the mid 90’s some of us in England were privy to the late night happenings of Channel 4, one of the (then) 4 main broadcasters on terrestrial television. If you stayed awake...
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An important aspect of any lifestyle, even a cyberpunk one, is sustenance. What makes food cyberpunk? There are many ways to answer this question, so Neon Dystopia will be...
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Reader, consider yourself blessed. Hot on the heels of HKE’s Omnia (reviewed here), comes The Ridges by Diamondstein, a perfectly complimentary audio experience for the...
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Last May, we featured a teaser for Temple, a cyberpunk short directed by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen. Some of you may remember him from the live-action Akira fan film that emerged a...
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The music of Level -1 is cyberpunk inspired 80s style synth. It wouldn’t seem out of place in an 80s science fiction video game or a retro-style cyberpunk game today. The VR...
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Sneaking its way on to the PS4, major reviewers seem to have missed République. Kenichiro Treglazov is the enigmatic and charismatic leader of République, a small authoritarian...
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Dimension W, from which the anime takes its name, is an alternate dimension that can be exploited for energy. A company called New Tesla monetizes this discovery and...
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In February of this year philosophers Michael Madary and Thomas Metzinger published the paper Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct. Recommendations for Good Scientific...
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Dead Leaves came out back in 2004, but I had never heard of it until recently. It’s a one-off anime movie, that is chaotic, offensive, and overly sexual which is probably why...
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ReTech is an art project run by the artist Asher. All of Asher’s work is accomplished by reclaiming disused, antiquated technology to be repurposed as art. The motto “Ars Ex...
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Testament to the popularity of 80’s aesthetics and those dark digital futures that so many are fond of, the synth and retrowave movements just keep growing and growing. As with...
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Junk Head 1 is an indie short film on youtube that was created largely by just one guy in his spare time. Using stop motion animation, a bit of CGI and a lot of free time, he...
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Josan Gonzalez is an artist that has exploded onto the science fiction art scene. If you aren’t familiar with his name but are remotely involved with the cyberpunk community,...
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Grendel, Timewave Zero. A few weeks ago a friend asked me to look at the music video for Grendel’s Timewave Zero. As a cyberpunk fan, and a fan of my sci-fi works, he wanted to...
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Busy day at MegaCorps? Need a palette cleanser after those fraught hours hacking mainframes? Well look no further. France-based cyberpunk, Lueur Verte has just released...
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Obvious pun is obvious. I am not in fact talking about the delightful Deus Ex game, but rather about the actual revolution in society and technology we are witnessing today....
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A gifted, troubled scientist has tainted banknotes with “green poison” and put them into circulation on Black Friday, passing through millions of hands on a single night of...
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The first season of Peter Chung’s Phantom 2040 was an amazing title, and is unjustly ignored. It presented exceptional voice acting from actors such as Ron Perlman and Mark...
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Love it or loathe it, there’s something inescapably cyberpunk about vaporwave. It’s the sound of skewed future-capitalist dreams transmitted through in-ear filters and grainy...
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Commonly, stories about alien invasion either display staunch opposition to their hosts or blind acceptance of visitors to their world. Where Colony differs is in its decision...
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Thomas Anderson leads a dual existence. By day, he’s a cubicle worker at a respected software company. By night, as Neo, he’s a hacker. And a good one. Neo sells his skills...
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Watching the trailer for Synchronicity was an experience. Visually and aurally, it harkened back to Blade Runner in all the right ways. It has a heavy feeling of science...
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Irving Force is a retrowave 80s style synth band whose music calls to memory action scenes from 80s action flicks, many of which were heavily cyberpunk in nature. The Violence...
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When one mentions The Phantom franchise people don’t usually think cyberpunk, myself included. The Phantom, created by Lee Falk in 1936, was the first hero to wear a skin tight...
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If there’s one thing everyone from New York has experienced, it’s inaccuracies in the way the city is portrayed. You mostly see it in TV and movies where Toronto, Vancouver,...
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After the “Geronimo execution,” Will and Snyder’s motorcade are attacked by DHS that attempt to kill them. A combination of drones and quick thinking allow them to escape, and...
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Baoh is one of the more obscure cyberpunk animes out there. I suspect that is often overlooked because of it’s strong biopunk and shonen (anime for boys, think Dragonball or...
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Punk kids are going around town plastering every naked wall with posters of Geronimo, even making use of the pipe system used to deliver scripts to Luis Ortega, our pirate...
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CASE FILE – 1.0utside We all know by now that David Bowie has died. One could say he had predicted his own future cult status with his final work Blackstar, or perhaps he...
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As someone who makes their living putting words to paper, often in the capacity as a spinner, I’m expected to know a thing or two about “truth” in journalism and how it must be...
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I had serious reservations about Colony, but I have to admit that it’s slowly starting to work for me. Right away the show outs Broussard as a collaborator, specifically one of...
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Early on in “Read Only Memories”, a point and click game reminiscent of Hideo Kojima’s 1988 game“Snatcher”, a personal assistant robot acting as your sidekick asks you what...
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Underground radio, echoing the ravings of Lazarus Pirate Radio, draws the attention of Homeland Security who can’t seem to stop them between broadcasts. Bram, Will’s son and an...
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After the hype over the head transplantation proposed by Dr. Canavero, things have been a bit quiet in terms of big ideas for developments in transhumanism. However, on January...
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Space is a tough sell for me. Star Trek and Wars never grabbed my attention. Revivals, reboots, and reimaginings go by without me noticing. It’s only when I’m ignorant to what...
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Now working for Homeland Security under occupation control, Will is on the trail of the resistance and its leader Geronimo. His first case is to find the bomber that exploded...
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Founded by the Portuguese entrepreneur Henrique Jorge, ETER9 is a social network that allows you to create your digital Counterpart by collecting and analyzing your online...
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Will Bowman, a father in alien-occupied California, runs to Santa Monica in hopes of finding his lost son. The smuggling operation goes off the rails as a resistance explosive...
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2016 is focusing it’s theatrical might on further litters of super hero movies, alien invasion flicks, and solidly post-apocalyptic fare. Despite this sadly misguided focus,...
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In the world of independent labels and almost never ending amount of music that is available, it’s generally hard for me to keep up and actually sit down and listen to any...
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I woke up this morning and as I always do checked my social media like the well trained citizen I am. All of my feeds were saturated with the truly sad news that David Bowie...
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As a New Yorker, born, raised, likely microchiped to prevent me from leaving the city, I’m no stranger to seeing alternate versions of places around me. New York is always the...
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Media in the 90s was a weird creature. It was the decade the Internet boomed but had yet to achieve complete supremacy over media migration, and because of that circumstance it...
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Cyber Santa by Jim Leftwich, from 1993’s edition of Beyond Cyberpunk! Christmas is a holiday that by it’s very nature rubs a lot of cyberpunks the wrong way, because of it’s...
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Based in Buenos Aires, the creative studio 3DAR has recently released a short movie called Uncanny Valley about virtual reality addiction. Foreseeing a future where VR junkies...
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Introduction Soma, by Frictional Games, is a great addition to the genre of science fiction horror, as well as the cyberpunk genre. This isn’t surprising considering that the...
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Rarely am I the one to promote a graphic novel or any type of reading media given the huge lack of time I have for consuming entertainment in that form. But being a long time...
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The list of imagined effects from the use of computers and devices connected to the Internet and one another has never been short and have always been supplemented with...
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Serial Experiments Lain (1999), Ryutaro Nakamura Some days ago, the article Is Solarpunk the new Cyberpunk?, written by RoAnna Sylva, popped on my Facebook timeline. Now...
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Summary Cyberpunk films are no stranger to presenting worlds where there are an abundance of options for escaping reality in favor of one more pleasant. In the future of...
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The Cold War & The Creation of the Cyberpunk Welcome Rootwyrm to the regular contributors for Neon Dystopia. This is his first article, but definitely not the last. I vividly...
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Warning: This post has spoilers. Is it a common place to say that David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (2012) looks like Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995)? Maybe not. I have...
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Sam Esmail broke the predictive model of summer cable shows with the psychological thriller Mr. Robot. Elliot Alderson is our hero, and from the first utterance of his shaky...
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Cyberpunk Beginnings… In 1986, Larry McCaffery interviewed William Gibson and he mentioned how Escape from New York had influenced his writing, “Yeah, like Escape from New York...
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In Mr. Robot’s New York, there’s a clear distinction between classes and the influence they hold in the disparate social circles they inhabit. Interlopers are quickly detected....
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Netflix has ordered a new series based on a dystopian pilot that was posted in three parts in 2011, entitled Three Porcento (Three Percent), based on the plot where people are...
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A few years ago, when I was just starting to explore the industrial scene, I discovered an amazing song called Vyperpunk by a band I had never heard of called Dope Stars Inc. I...
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This post was written by Josh Ishiro Finney, an author and artist for 01 Publishing. You can contact Josh via Facebook or Twitter. Punk. Punk rock. Punk ’til you puke! As a...
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The new Terminator movie claimed to be the true successor to Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. So much so that even James Cameron said it was the real third film. I’m...
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If you’re reading this without IP maskers, free from the fear that your online interactions are being monitored, though I wouldn’t recommend you be so bold to assume such...
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In the proof-of-concept video Speedhack, you have the chance to check the work of Dylan J. Nathan, a British architecter who has been in a long journey through electronic...
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Part 1 – Pattern Recognition Foreword I wrote this guide sometime in 2012, just before it seems everyone suddenly realized we were living in a previously obscure, very...
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[Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.] Season 3 Summary Mrs. S handed Helena over to Paul in order to keep the US government away from the sisters. Not liking her twin taken,...
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I have often thought of Shadowrun as the gateway drug to cyberpunk. If only I had nuyen for every person I coerced into playing Shadowrun as futuristic D&D, then dropped them...
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Music incorporating cyberpunk themes is fairly common across a variety of genres, but until now, I had yet to come across music that’s about the artist’s relationship with the...
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Kung Fury is really a love note to 80s action movies. Much of the cyberpunk ascetic comes from this period and is well represented here. Kung Fury really only has cyberpunk...
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I took a long time to finally watch to Alex Garland’s debut film Ex Machina (2015), but when I was finally able to see it, I had so much high hopes that I ended up being a...
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It seems like a long time since Power Glove’s EP 1 was released in early 2012. The retrofuturistic feel of tracks like ‘Night Force’ or ‘Streets of 2043’ have reached a level...
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Marco Ramirez, the new showrunner/writer of Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix original television series has been hired to write a screenplay for a live-action adaptation of the...
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On the hunt for new cyberpunk clothing we came across EchoDecay. Their style caught our eye and we sat down for a little chat… Neon Dystopia: How did you get started?...
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Today we launched the Cyberpunk Games Database; a resource for people needing inspiration, curious about a particular title, or doing research into cyberpunk games. It’s based...
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In Brazil, there is this dilemma about national identity that was already the subject of several posts written by foreigners who lived here for some time. You can find tons of...
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It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment where cyberpunk and the 1980s VHS trash aesthetic became so inexorably intertwined. I’d hazard that it likely stems from the slew of...
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5 Lives Studios have released an update to their Kickstarter-funded, Early Access cyberpunk game Satellite Reign, bringing it up to version 0.6. With this version comes the...
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“By 2085, ocean levels have risen to a point that entire coastal cities and islands have been submerged. On an island megalopolis, a genetic virus and cybernetic beings are...
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American CEO Martine Rothblatt shows how transgender issues can be connected to transhumanism Should we consider 2015 as the year of transhumanism? Well, we’re barely at the...
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When I originally watched the trailer for Vice, I immediately thought this is what Westworld would look like if it had been an action movie. Now, having actually watched the...
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(image courtesy of AskMen) It was reported this past Thursday that China dragged the world into the future, caring little as to the preparedness of everyone else. Genetic...
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Although John Carpenter’s excellent recent release of original music Lost Themes is perhaps a little too horrorcentric to be within Neon Dystopia’s remit, the recent video for...
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Released in 2001, Oni is a video game developed by Bungie West. Available for Windows, Mac OS and Playstation 2, it’s a third-person action game with hand-to-hand combat...
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The words “Call of Duty” are enough to put a lot of people off, but perhaps not when it starts to venture into cyberpunk territory. Take a look at the latest “Ember” trailer...
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One of the most satisfying things about cyberpunk is that its visions of tomorrow will always be a day away. Wearable tech, hacking scandals, personal drones and other items...
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Trends are often thought of as cyclical, and as they drop to the floor of the ocean of social consciousness, they swim underneath larger trends only to surface again. That...
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Starting back in 1997, the aggrotech/dark electro Dutch band Grendel was named after the beast in the Anglo-Saxon tale Beowulf. That’s where the folk inspiration ends – the...
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True Skin may have come out a few years ago, but it’s lasting impact on me is always somewhere when I watch other cyberpunk films. It takes place in the distant future where it...
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Today we live in a world saturated with technology. What this means is that electronic security is a constant point of concern, not just for the IT industry, spies, or...
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Here it is – the next instalment in the Deus Ex franchise will be Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Check out the great trailer below – it’s a decent length and provides more details...
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Is there a lack of cyberpunk in your games collection? Bored of Netrunner or Cyberpunk 2020 but can’t find an alternative? A couple of weeks ago Grenade Punch Games launched a...
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Nothing evokes more cyberpunk imagery than the image of a lone figure perched like Batman on a gargoyle, surveying the internet as packets move around beneath him, watching the...
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Alex Strunz Some may think the EBM scene in Brazil is not so strong, but the truth is that there are still many artists striving to keep it alive. One to be mentioned is Alex...
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The adjective ‘cinematic’ tends to get attached to cyberpunk musical projects a lot, either because the music itself owes a lot to soundtrack composers or is deliberately...
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Some absolutely incredible medical breakthroughs have given cause for a Special Edition of Doc Forre’s Science Report. Medical Technology A common risk in medical surgery is...
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In the previous article written by Karl, he gave us a great notion of how we can think about reality and existence according to a cyberpunk point of view. However, what do some...
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Neon Dystopia has been growing. Whether we’re talking about the size of the team, the number of articles produced, the traffic heading to the website, or the projects we have...
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Although you may find her creations rather futuristic than cyberpunk, Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer every science fiction fan should pay attention. Even if you...
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This article attempts to discover whether virtual reality is merely an experience one can have through a pair of goggles, or if it is somehow already present in our lives...
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“Divine Move” perfectly presents what frustrates me most about 12 Monkeys as an expanded story and universe thus far: the presentation of compelling elements and their...
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Futurepop has been an amazing music genre to create sci-fi atmospheres. As an outgrowth of electronic body music (EBM), which was very popular in the 80’s, futurepop had its...
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Did you hear? Cyberpunk has come into its own. I know, you’re excited. Right? Reading this on this site tells me you have some interest in cyberpunk, at least enough to want to...
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Neill Blomkamp’s most recent movie, Chappie, is the successor of his previous films District 9 and Eylsium. Where District 9 was mostly about institutional apartheid, and...
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In “Tomorrow,” we see Cole surviving the early days of the plague in Ukraine before he’s spotted by the UN and handed over to the military that’s been hunting him. Soon he’s...
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If ever there was a sign that Cyberpunk is entering a form of renaissance, at least in terms of games, it has to be a sale on Steam. Valve’s digital distribution platform is...
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The massive surge in music drawing on 1980s genre cinema in the past few years has been something of a boon to cyberpunk fans. Not only does the influence of Vangelis’ seminal...
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The modern incarnation of Cyberpunk as we know it is a sub-genre of Sci-Fi, a handful of movies, a fashion statement, a collection of novels; but what’s so Punk about...
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Neuroscience Oh creativity, you’re so under-researched, yet so weirdly important. Operational definition? Last I checked it was sketchy at best, but that’s what inventories are...
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What’s that famous saying? “You wait forever for one cyberpunk-related daily sketch prompt to show up and then along come two at once!” Wait, that’s not it. Regardless, that’s...
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It probably appeared to some that DeviantPunk stopped almost as soon as it started. The truth is it only took a break. It’s back and with perhaps the best cyberpunk art Neon...
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Last week’s review of 12 Monkeys was skipped. Obviously not much happened, and our patience with the show is visibly wearing thing. To summarize things quickly, “The Keys” went...
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There are very few albums I can recall hearing for the first time. I remember the first time I fell in love with The Clash’s London Calling or Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures,...
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Space Most folks have heard that extended time in space can wreck havoc on the muscles and bones of astronauts, but new research is showing that there are even worse...
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[Update: Due to the DMCA rules, Vimeo & Youtube pulled the short film but you can still view it here for now on Shankar’s Facebook page] I was never a huge Mighty Morphin Power...
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In the odd future where West 7 is in control, Cole learns that he hadn’t returned further in the future where the militia had taken over the facility but it was an entirely new...
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Readers of William Gibson’s Zero History might recall that part of the plot revolved around the search for the origins of a secret clothing brand called ‘Gabriel Hounds’, with...
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In light of some of the recent cyber-attacks, such as the hacking of Sony and Anthem, it’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of computer security today. So the last thing...
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Medical Technology As of the time of this writing, the Keck School of Medicine is preparing to announce preliminary results in a clinical trial of auditory brainstem implants...
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It’s 2013, and Jennifer Goines, convincingly more sane than previously seen, gets to the Night Room for the first time and handles her father’s virus despite fearing potential...
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It’s a Friday night in the harbor area of Aberdeen, Scotland and the sky above The Moorings Bar is the color of dirty tungsten. Beyond the dock’s tangle of ship’s radars and...
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After a highly-acclaimed first season that drew in millions across countries, and the third right around the corner, I take a look back to the second season of Orphan Black and...
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Last year’s Dangerous Days by Perturbator might not only be one of my favorite cyberpunk themed albums ever, but one of my favorite albums period. It was certainly one of the...
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It’s a new year and that means that the 2015 game release schedule is going to start taking shape! More specifically, several fantastic looking cyberpunk games are scheduled to...
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This has been a pretty awesome last couple weeks for the Medical Technology side of the news, so this week’s update is going to be a little bit more focused than the first...
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Another day, another Kickstarter? No – not when it’s cyberpunk. Glitch Hunter, the first digital cyberpunk CCG, hit Kickstarter earlier today and made nearly $3,000 in it’s...
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It wasn’t clear whether or not this particular special of Black Mirror would be aired. Brooker, the showrunner, had expressed wanting to take a hiatus from the show in the...
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In a 382-to-128 vote, the UK has agreed to step into the future and adopt measures to support and regulate embryonic repair, the medical practice which helps eliminate genetic...
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Pushing against the dearth of sci-fi television in most markets, and premiering just a few months before the disastrous Almost Human, Orphan Black should’ve failed just after...
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In September 2014, Samsung announced its Virtual Reality (VR) headset, the Gear VR. Unlike the Oculus Rift or some other headsets, it does not contain a built in screen but...
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What is it that draws you to the Cyberpunk genre? This is a question I ask myself at least a dozen times every year since I first saw Johnny Mnemonic when I was around ten...
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Cole’s reluctance to open up to Railly puts a strain on their relationship in the present as they search for the “Night Room” before the 12 Monkeys use Goines to get there...
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Neon Dystopia is proud to present our new Forums! We set up the forums with the idea of bringing people together to discuss anything cyberpunk-related. As a team of writers,...
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What happens when you can plug yourself into a virtual reality game and hone real muscle memory at an accelerated rate? That is the central question that Haphead poses. The...
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Almost at home in William Gibsion’s Spook Country, visual artist Simon Heijdens has found a way to take technology and apply it to visual art in a novel way that’s spawning a...
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Taking an odd turn, the second season of Black Mirror features less high-tech scenarios than its predecessors, but Brooker’s focus is still centered on the social implications...
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This was an article submitted to Neon Dystopia by TTristanMartin. In gadget circles, 2015 will be the year of the Smartwatch and, one by one, consumers are a step closer to...
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A link between hip-hop and cyberpunk may not initially seem like the most obvious musical connection. Industrial’s cybernetic fusions of organic instrumentation and machinery,...
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Having your art described as “the closest thing to the visions I’ve experienced on DMT [Dimethyltryptamine]” is most probably a compliment. At the least, it suggests that a...
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After training Railly in the basics of using a handgun, fearing the men who’d kidnapped Jennifer could come after her, she’s called by police who want to know what happened at...
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While cybernetic enhancements or implants are archetypal of, but not limited to, the cyberpunk genre, Upgraded: The Cyborg Anthology as an entire book prioritises the human...
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What happens when we cease to fight our own wars? This isn’t a question of privatization through private military companies, but more a question on technological progression...
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Science has been making many new discoveries lately, helping to turn your cyberpunk dystopia from fiction into fact. Let’s see what they’ve been up to recently… Marketing The...
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Disclaimer: This is a review filled with spoilers. Black Mirror is the modern-world’s answer to the analysis of the social and human conditions of Western life brought to us by...
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Disclaimer: There will be spoilers. Isaac Asimov is one of the inspirations for early cyberpunk creators. He is responsible for the concept of the “Three Laws of Robotics” and...
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You may have heard of AdBlock; its a plugin that runs in your computer’s web browser to keep ads from appearing while you browse the internet. Cool, right? Well, a group of...
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The Cyberpunk Community Soundtrack project has celebrated the completion of its fourth year with the release of its new 2014 compilation. Comprised of a massive 47 tracks from...
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Raspberry Pi might not be the newest kid on the block anymore, but it is one of the most accessible. It is strong enough to display HD movies and small enough to make wearable...
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Welcome to Westworld, the resort where you get to experience what it was like to live in the Wild West. Don’t mind the fact that the movie was written and directed by Micheal...
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In the sprawl, or whatever currently passes for the sprawl, there are any number of airborne dangers; from thick clouds of smog to tear gas grenades. In order to protect...
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It’s a personal hope of mine that the smartest of us are the best of us. This is an ideal that I know has no place in reality. Irrespective of IQ, social status, or the ability...
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These days it’s difficult to find decent cyberpunk clothing unless you are willing to pay a shitload of money and search through the millions of clothes that have nothing to do...
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The cyberpunk music scene in 2015 is off to a great start with Stockholm-based producer Irving Force’s recently released debut, the Undercover EP. The EP’s six atmospheric...
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When ever Phillip K. Dick’s name is mentioned a cyberpunk’s ears perk up. Dick was the most prolific of the proto-cyberpunk writers and many of the best cyberpunk movies, such...
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Disclaimer I: Spoilers are in this review. Read at your own risk. Disclaimer II: If you’re going to watch 12 Monkeys (2015) you need to forget about 12 Monkeys (1995). Nothing...
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Disclaimer I: Spoilers are in this review. Read at your own risk. Disclaimer II: If you’re going to watch 12 Monkeys (2015) you need to forget about 12 Monkeys (1995). Nothing...
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While you’re reading this, a team of computer scientists, engineers, neurologists, and many other ologists are putting billions of computer equipment to the grueling task of...
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Scandroid invokes a level of cyberpunk that few other musicals projects have. As you are drawn into the engrossing music, you envision walking the streets flanked with neon...
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You may have heard the question before; “What is Cyberpunk?” Maybe someone set you a challenge, instead; “Try to define Cyberpunk.” It’s one of those things that divides...
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Cyberpunk’s “high-tech, low-life” mantra is where Primordia fits in very well. It is a point-and-click game with a bundle of puzzles and fun conversations between two quirky...
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Recently I took a Youtube trip. I’m generally not a fan of those. I wind up watching too many videos about nothing and I’m left wondering where the afternoon went. But this...
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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED Thank you to all who applied, shared, or otherwise showed an interest. We’ve had applications from some incredible people and the team will be...
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In his 2003 book, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson introduces us to Cayce Pollard (pronounced Case – anyone surprised?) who is a coolhunter. As described in the excerpt...
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I had the opportunity to play Metrocide before it was released just before Christmas and I liked what I saw. Great cyberpunk visuals, a well-built city as your concrete...
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Some photographers don’t even know that there will be fans of cyberpunk out there appreciating their work as pieces of cyberpunk art. I reckon James Beyer is one of them as his...
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It’s time for some more cyberpunk art from the depths of DeviantArt’s galleries, so power up your cyber-optic enhancements (put on your spectacles) and catch a load of this! If...
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The Assassin’s Creed games are largely a mash-up of science fiction and historical fantasy, but the near future setting of Abstergo Industries is a very cyberpunk place, and...
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This week in City@Night we’re mixing things up a bit. You won’t find any bright neon lights or over-saturated shots of vehicle lights in city streets that make it look like a...
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Following on from the #CyberpunkJam retrospective we did a little while ago, we caught up with the game jam creator, Grace Lynn, and asked her about setting it up, Grace’s...
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After the recent Deus Ex overview here on Neon Dystopia, some good news came along a couple of days later for fans of the franchise. Eidos Montreal have released the short...
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Brazil is a cyberpunk Christmas movie if there ever was one. The movie is born out of the same social anxiety that the cyberpunk movement was. There is an unfortunate lack of...
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How was your trip to Kowloon? Did you enjoy it? Good. This week with City@Night we have the cyberpunk city photography of Trey Ratcliff, “a warm-hearted, old-school gentleman...
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With news about the new Deus Ex: Universe starting to pick up and the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution team at Eidos-Montreal now working on the next game, it seems a good...
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Welcome to the first DeviantPunk spotlight! Each week we’ll be looking at a new artist or illustrator who creates Cyberpunk art and posts it on DeviantArt, “the world’s largest...
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If you haven’t seen a Nemesis movie, let me get you up to speed and share with you my thoughts on the franchise. The Nemesis franchise is made up 4 movies: Nemesis, Nemesis 2:...
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Game Jams are fantastic things. You get a very short amount of time to create a game. It’s as simple as that, in essence, though there are usually modifications that set design...
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Chances are you’ve heard of the Kowloon Walled City. You’ve probably seen photos of it, too. Some of those photos may have been from one of its most renowned Western...
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Metrocide will be released on Monday 15th December (so soon!) and Neon Dystopia had a chance to play the latest build just before it goes live on Steam. In a nutshell,...
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I have started to notice parkour in media with cyberpunk themes more and more often. William Gibson, although not calling it by name, references parkour in Spook Country. The...
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Deus Ex Dawn Engine screenshot Eidos-Montréal has announced on their blog a new game engine called Dawn. So what? “[The] Dawn Engine will form the cornerstone for all Deus Ex...
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Following on from the look at Brigador‘s tweaked graphics a few days ago, we caught up with Hugh and Jack Monahan; the two brothers developing Brigador at Stellar Jockeys. It...
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This week we bring you the city photography of Evan Joseph, a distinguished photographer based in New York that focuses on architecture, interiors, and (most importantly)...
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SPOILER ALERT: There is some information in this post that could be classed as a spoiler. When I watched the announce trailer for Almost Human I sat awed by the prospect of a...
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Brigador’s new splash screen. We first heard of Brigador back when it was called Matador earlier in 2014 via RPS. Since then, the dark and dystopian mech combat game (or...
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Netrunner, by Fantasy Flight Games, is a card game steeped in cyberpunk history. The game is based on the rules originally created by Richard Garfield of Magic: The Gathering...
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How many music producers would claim William Gibson’s Neuromancer as their favourite book? Just one, as far as I can tell, and that’s Com Truise (according to this interview...
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Well, it’s official… or should I say ‘as official as anything gets in Hollywood’; Ridley Scott will not be directing the Blade Runner sequel! Variety reported this along with...
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SYNC is on the edges of cyberpunk as a genre. It’s got hacking, advanced technology, mega-corporations, gunplay, and a motorbike speeding down a highway. Due to its nature as a...
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Jason Shawn Alexander can draw. Not just that, though; he can also write stories. He can probably do other stuff, too, but those two allow him to create one mean comic book....
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Some people just don’t seem to be getting the credit they deserve. Ignasi Velasco is one of them. Velasco, based in Barcelona, is a composer focused on making music for...
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It’s about time for another City@Night so prepare yourself for a transition from sleepy streets to brightly-lit tower blocks and from amateur photographer to a professional....
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Satellite Reign, the spiritual successor to the classic Syndicate, was successfully Kickstarted last year (July 28, 2013). Fortunately, progress seems to have been pretty...
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Joseph MacKinnon’s newest book, Cypulchre, is a recent addition to the library of cyberpunk literature. The story follows our protagonist, Paul, who invented a technology...
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I. Want. One. Every time I look at it, it’s all I seem to think about. The Type 50 Division Furtive This incredibly stylish watch is called the Division Furtive Type 50. There...
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Psycho-Pass is a compelling anime series that premiered in October 2012. It was the creative result of Production I.G. trying to come up with a successor to their beloved Ghost...
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There are literally millions of apps out there. A quick app search for “cyberpunk” only yields a handful of results, the majority of which are either irrelevant or unwanted...
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While it is certainly electronic in nature, the particulars and idiosyncrasies of T3RR0R 3RR0r make any further categorization awfully difficult . Their music is frequently...
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Another week, another heavy dose of dark and dreamy cyberpunk goodness. Episode #4 is a bit more subdued compared to last week’s podcast, though there are a couple of standout...
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Invisible Apartment is a visual novel with a few choose-your-own-adventure elements littered throughout. The creator, Milan Kazarka, was inspired to create Invisible Apartment...
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Observations about a recurring motif in Cyberpunk media “You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad, didn’t you?”; part of the dialogue delivered by Police Commissioner Bob Hauk in...
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This week Telekord brings you over an hours worth of Cyberpunk goodness. My personal highlight is Blade Runner’s end theme by Vangelis. Without further hesitation, I bring you...
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There are so many times where I’ve needed something like this; whether it is to satisfy a short-term craving for a fresh CP movie, to help me remember the name of one I’ve...
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This is the first post in a series featuring the Cyberpunk Dreams podcast from Telekord at Dream Catalogue. In the CD podcast he covers vaporwave, ambient, and downtempo tracks...
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There are two simple reasons why I want this game; the name and the artwork. I’m not sure a single title could conjure more cyberpunk themes than this one does, and the...