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More than any others, one work deserves the qualifier of “post-cyberpunk”: Carbon & Silicon, from awarded French author Mathieu Bablet. However, the label itself has no...
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Re-watching Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall feels like a breath of canned air from the early nineties. A hulking protagonist, copious amounts of violence, snappy one-liners,...
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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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Neofeud, developed by Hawaiian writer, artist and game dev Christian Miller (also known as “Silver Spook”), is, as the title suggests, a point and click adventure game set in a...
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Wow…I did not expect this in the slightest. Originally titled as Cyber God, and then Stephen King’s: The Lawnmower Man (even though it virtually bore no resemblance to his...
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Do you like science fiction? Do you like westerns? Do you, my dear reader, also like romance? What about a chimeric fusion of all three, stitched together corpse to corpse? If...
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Ah, it’s finally here, isn’t it? I finally get to review Johnny Mnemonic! Directed by Robert Longo and adapted by our beloved William Gibson (based upon his short story),...
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This week in cyberpunk, we see the continued erosion of ethics in the US echelons of power, and we Tim Miller, of Deadpool fame, take on multiple classic cyberpunk properties,...
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Unless you lived under a rock for the duration of 2016, you’re probably aware of the fact that the United States elected a new president. Promises of good paying jobs, which...
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Absolute Knowledge, written by independent author Drew Cordell, is the product of a successful Kickstarter project, and is a novel that feels reminiscent of elderly SF. The...
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Westworld’s worst-kept secret finally exposed, but having theories confirmed about where the Man in Black and William intersect didn’t pull away focus from the robot revolt...
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‘I can buy you, grow you, sell you, cut you into bits. Your screams: my music’; A Review of Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Books & Fiction
Though published in the mid-nineties, Sterling’s compendium Schismatrix Plus includes the Schismatrix novel itself, along with several shorts and prose pieces that add to his...
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The Internet comes under massive attack, the US Government declares the future dystopian, and cyberpunk media continues to help paint this possible future, this week in...
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Cold War tensions return while simultaneously AI chat-bots dominate the news. We see more information about Battle Angel Alita and Blade Runner 2 finally has an official title....
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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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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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Founded by the Portuguese entrepreneur Henrique Jorge, ETER9 is a social network that allows you to create your digital Counterpart by collecting and analyzing your online...
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I took a long time to finally watch to Alex Garland’s debut film Ex Machina (2015), but when I was finally able to see it, I had so much high hopes that I ended up being a...
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What happens when we cease to fight our own wars? This isn’t a question of privatization through private military companies, but more a question on technological progression...
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Disclaimer: There will be spoilers. Isaac Asimov is one of the inspirations for early cyberpunk creators. He is responsible for the concept of the “Three Laws of Robotics” and...