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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...