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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...
When the Eye Sees Itself: A Bright Future in a Fragmented Mirror
When the Eye Sees Itself is the debut novel of Eric Borgerson. Released in January of 2018, the story attempts to gel Borgerson’s interests and background in law, political activism, phil...
Is cyberpunk a sentient light bulb? – A review of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon is widely regarded as one of the most influential of American novelists. Famously secretive, little is known of his whereabouts, save from two memorable cameos in The Simpsons. Gravity’...
Reaching the Truth with Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon
One experimental, dangerous, and possibly-illegal medical procedure that allows me to download digital information directly into my brain later, I’ve done it. I’ve gotten through the last ...
Inside the Pages of Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night
K.W. Jeter must have been in a bad place when writing his second novelized sequel to the cyberpunk codifier, Blade Runner. I say this because, after a year’s hiatus from reading not only the dec...
Pictures at 11 by Norman Spinrad: Media manipulation in a pre-internet era
KLAX Action News team taken hostage! Eco-terrorists demand halt to construction of nuclear desalination plants off the coast of Los Angeles! Pictures at 11! Norman Spinrad is arguably best known in cy...
Seoul, Cybercity of our Dreams
One of the many singular delights of new Netflix movie Okja, the first new film from visionary auteur Bong Joon-ho since his cyberpunk classic Snowpiercer, is that it’s nice to finally see a mai...
Combat Chassis, Brain Scans and Angst: Michael R. Fletcher’s Ghosts of Tomorrow
Imagine a future where brains can be scanned, where personalities and consciousness become simulacra. Let’s take all of the energy and passion of youth and let it loose on a digital playground. ...
‘Open and shut case if I’ve ever seen one’: A Review of Control Theory
Written by independent SF writer, Pedro Iniguez, Control Theory is, unlike the novel I previously reviewed, a serious hard-boiled detective fiction piece trapped within the confines of a P.K. Dickian ...
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