William Gibson
Cyberpunk is Not Retrofuturism
Cyberpunk is not and never has been a retrofuturistic genre. Cyberpunk has always been about our future, not a future once imagined. Retrofuturism is defined as “a trend in the creative arts sho...
A Dream of Latticed Space: A Rereading of Neuromancer
We all know the text. We all know about William Gibson, the supposed Elvis of cyberpunk. But for those punkers who don’t, Neuromancer was an underground success, depicting the story of a burnt out hac...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 8/12/16
This week in cyberpunk we get a sneak peak at some upcoming cyberpunk/dystopian television alongside developments in our world that not so long ago would have been firmly in the realm of fiction. Welc...
Cumulus – When Gibson Calls, You Listen
Cumulus is a book that is firmly rooted in our coming future, just as Gibson’s vision was. According to Eliot Peper, the author of the independently published Cumulus, within 24 hours of release...
No More Heroes: The End of History and the Death of the Idealist
No More Heroes: The End of History and the Death of the Idealist Intro: Elections in the US and the UK have dominated international news for months, feeding pundit speculation over the future of eithe...
Biopunk IS Cyberpunk
It bewilders me that people see a strict separation between the subgenres of biopunk and cyberpunk. Cyberpunk fiction has always had a healthy dose of biological technology. For visual media, sound ex...
1979’s Alien Is Part Of The Cyberpunk Zeitgeist
At first glance Ridley Scott’s Alien, from 1979, is easy to dismiss from discussions about cyberpunk. When perceived as a movie about an alien stalking the crew of a spaceship, I can understand ...
What Makes Food Cyberpunk? Part 3: Is Ramen Cyberpunk?
If you ask a cyberpunk fan “What kind of food is cyberpunk?” they will probably tell you Ramen, Instant Ramen, or simply noodles. There are a number of reasons for this, including that noodles have ap...
Cyberpunk, Post-Cyberpunk, and the Maturing of a Genre
When cyberpunk emerged in the 1980s it didn’t come into existence from a vacuum. Previously authors like Phillip K. Dick, K. W. Jeter, Vernor Vinge, and J. G. Ballard had begun to explore some o...