Books & Fiction
The Cyber-Femme: Woman in the Machine
Cyberpunk exists as a kind of liminal space in the imagination, the hazy middle ground where dichotomies come to play. Cyberpunk settings often manage to be both dystopian-futurist and unnervingly clo...
Carbon & Silicon: a neuromantic tale by French author Mathieu Bablet
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 importance, as this new ent...
Greek Punk – a Review of a Cyberblade: City of Five Skies
Cyberblade: The City of Five Skies is a strong showing from a first author, but I can’t shake the feeling that it needed a little longer in the oven. It has huge ideas and shows strong creative vision...
The L0WL1F3 Podcast: a Neon Dystopia production
After long last, Neon Dystopia is proud to present our first ever podcast! The L0WL1F3 podcast! A podcast where Oldman Coinops, Shadowlink, and Scum talk news, movies, music, games, politics, chaos, a...
Classics, Class, and Code: The unlikely presence of the ancient world in cyberpunk literature
Classical antiquity, or classics – the study of the ancient Mediterranean, its history, culture, art, literature – is just about the fanciest thing in the history of the western world. It was, and to ...
Pills, Laughs, Dystopia, and SkullFuck: a review of Drugs and Wires
Close your eyes and picture the nineties. Imagine the Windows 94 logo as if on a black computer screen, jagged with thick pixels and bleached by the bright light of the cathode tube behind the monitor...
The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick, The Prolific Science-Fiction Writer Philip K Dick published a whopping 44 novels and 121 short stories before he died at the early age of 53. That’s about 44 novels more than most...
Decrypting Dystopia: The Cyber Noir Spectrum
Sometimes, it’s good to kick back and watch a good, old-fashioned noir. Wrapping yourself up in tales about scoundrels, femme fatales, crooks, and regular joes who just found themselves in the w...
Posthuman, Alas! – New Romancer (DC/Vertigo, 2015)
Alexia “Lexy” Ryan is a programmer down on her luck. Despite being genetically engineered with brain enhancements by her her scientist dad, she is merely coding match-making algorithms for a third-rat...