author: Isaac L. Wheeler (Veritas)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...