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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...
Boss Rush: Cloudpunk
Welcome back to Boss Rush, the only column on the internet that will only stop when somebody buys me Cyberpunk 2077 and a console to play it on. Getting sick of me yet? Then pay up, bitch. Today we’re...
Soylent Green: Cyberpunk’s Horrifying Apotheosis
Soylent Green, believe it or not, is the pinnacle of the cyberpunk ethos, and not really about cannibalism (not entirely anyway). For those of you that have yet to watch the film, your cultural knowle...
Saga, Siron, and synth pop: The Music of BEKIMACHINE
With soothing synths and killer beats, Kent/London DJ BEKIMACHINE brings a fresh take to the synthpop genre via her new single Saga. Synthpop isn’t something I often frequent, with most of the music I...
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...
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...
‘It’s not my department’: A Review of Brazil
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has eluded me for many years now. After having read, watched, and played through many dystopian worlds, I have finally decided to watch the cult 80’s film. Needless to say, the ...
Genetic Recode: Looper
These days, it’s nearly impossible to find futuristic science fiction that doesn’t include familiar cyberpunk tropes. This is particularly true of sci-fi that takes place on a future Earth...
Saga of the Killing Angel: A Review of Gunnm
I’m not much of a manga reader. For some reason, I find it difficult to focus on digest-sized pages printed in black and white, and sometimes it’s difficult to follow the action if there&#...