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