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
Monthly Archive:: August 2007
Spook Country – half way mark….
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
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
Bionic Woman – First Lady of Cyberpunk
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
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
BRBR Shout out!
Fora.tv William Gibson Interview…
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