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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....