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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...