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Last Week in Cyberpunk – 3/4/19 to 3/17/19 the two week special
Through hiccups and crashes and the ever present screeching of white noise we are broadcasting to you from the digital wasteland. We are back to a regular scheduled program and bringing you two weeks ...
“Audible even over the gunfire”: A Review of A Song Called Youth Trilogy
There has been some debate about the nature of politics in cyberpunk. The punk suffix should give it away, but then again, the politics of punk do not form a consensus. Just as listening to any The Cl...
‘All dreams come to an end’: A Review of Total Recall (1990)
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, dramatically evil villains, ...
‘In the end, there were only images’: A Review of Until the End of the World
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 around the four-hour mark! Di...
‘She’s a character in a social narrative with no arc’: A Review of the Marlowe Kana Series
A couple weeks ago, I received a lovely little pressie from writer Joe Peacock. Opening the carefully wrapped package, I was quite excited to see his first three volumes of his Marlowe Kana series, so...
Neofeud: The Point and Clicky Adventure of a Cybernetic Dude
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 dystopic near-future Co...
‘Science made him a god’: A Review of The Lawnmower Man’
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 short story) and finally The...
‘You need to work on your personality’: A Review of Cherry 2000
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 so, then I have a specia...
‘IF…my head doesn’t blow up first’: A Review of Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
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), Johnny Mnemonic’s plot is as ...