Escape from New York
Last Week in Cyberpunk 12/2/2016
This week in cyberpunk, we see a return to the literary roots of the genre with a slew of new novels. While you are distracted by your new reading, there is plenty going on in the real world to encour...
The Legacy of the Long Tomorrow
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 famous...
Snake Plissken, True Cyberpunk Hero
Cyberpunk Beginnings… In 1986, Larry McCaffery interviewed William Gibson and he mentioned how Escape from New York had influenced his writing, “Yeah, like Escape from New York never made it big...
“You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad…”
Observations about a recurring motif in Cyberpunk media “You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad, didn’t you?”; part of the dialogue delivered by Police Commissioner Bob Hauk in 1981...