Monthly Archive:: August 2007

World of Warcraft

Ok so this is not so cyberpunk but I love this game! It looks like a new expansion pack is coming out at some point in the future (no release date). Good news – level cap moved to 80, new quests, hero class, new instances, siege weapons, destructible buildings – good fun! Read About Wrath [&hellip

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Spook Country – half way mark….

Well I have hit the 50% mark for Spook Country and I wanted to give you all a quick update on the book. Chapters are really short – under 5 pages or so on average – great for reading while doing your dirty business Blue Ant is back! New technological concept is a kind of [&hellip

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Dystopian Lit

Guardian has a list of the Top 10 Dystopia Novels (found via BoingBoing) for teens composed by author Gemma Malley, who has a dystopian novel out. The tie-in for posting here of course: dystopian predictions being a large part of the cyberpunk genre. Her list is commendable if a bit too literary for my tastes, but [&hellip

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The Age of Steampunk

Found via BoingBoing, an article in The Boston Globe with a gallery of steampunk objects. An interesting observation is part of the article wherein it talks about the preservation of objects, taking modern day appliances and rendering them as steampunk items to increase the desire to save them, to make them museum pieces. Interesting. I [&hellip

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Bionic Woman – First Lady of Cyberpunk

It seems like forever that I have been looking for the original Bionic Man series on DVD. I am hoping that the new TV series “Bionic Woman” will mean that a US release of the original series is forthcoming.  Hope this series is good – I will TIVO it and let you know. – Enoc

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Shadowrun the series Part 3

I mentioned previously that the shadowrun books are my romance novels and perhaps I should explain myself a little here. First of all the plots are all some what similar. There is a “Johnson” – an anonymous individual usually from the corporate runner – who goes to a “Fixer” – who is the middle man [&hellip

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Top 15 Great Science Fiction Books

And the Shadowrunning tie-in … Neuromancer at No. 10! An interesting site all-in-all, but this specific post was a pretty good one for, as one commentor says, recognizing that scifi started before 1980. No Jules Verne, but some early stuff I hadn’t read. And then the comments are the real fun part! All the pleas for [&hellip

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BRBR Shout out!

Just a quick note that Ling has started his own blog – “Book Review Blog Review” or BRBR for short. I have added his site to the blog roll. I think you will find the visit well worth it.  — Link to

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Fora.tv William Gibson Interview…

Well I have been waiting for the Cody’s Broadcast of William Gibson’s Book Reading to be posted to their site and here it is.. Hear what we heard , see what we saw… -Enoc

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Gibson in New York Times..

Todays NY Times had an interesting Q&A session with William Gibson. “Do you feel that you’ve transcended the science-fiction genre in your work? My roots are in a genre. That is the funny thing. Novels are called novels because, ideally, they provide a novel experience. But in genre, you’re sort of buying a guarantee that [&hellip

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