Just found the site Cyber Punk Radio. I am going to subscribe via iTunes and load a couple of podcasts onto my iPhone and listen on the way home from work. I will let you know if it is worthwhile listening to.. Enoch Powered by ScribeFire
General Cyberpunk Archive
Batter up! – Next Cyber Punk Book started…
Well I took a little vacation from Cyberpunk to read Michael Stackpoles 3rd installment in the “Secret Atlas” series but I am back on track and have started Ian McDonald’s book River of Gods. Short background on this book – takes place in India in 2047 and takes a look at what future life would [&hellip
Richard K. Morgan
Rudy Rucker – What a FLURB
For those of you not familiar with him, Rudy Rucker, is one amazing writer… He is a professor at San Jose State University in the Math and Computer science department as well a writer. I would not consider his books cyberpunk though I have seen him lumped into that genre and I believe that is [&hellip
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Another Punk… Steampunk
Out of the world of Cyberpunk came the concept of Steampunk… ” Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in [&hellip
A night with William Gibson in Spook Country
As mentioned in my last post – Ling and I attended a signing and reading of William Gibson’s Spook Country last night. About 50 + people attended (full house) the event at Cody’s (last remaining) Bookstore on 4th St in Berkeley. Ling and I have attended these kind of events before ( for Neil Gaiman [&hellip
What is Cyberpunk?
Well, far be it from me to offer a definitive definition, but I know it when I read it. It’s usually near-future distopian literature with some cybernetics and some punks (ie hackers). Virtual Reality, the net, feature large in most cyberpunk. To put it in movie terms, Blade Runner, not Star Wars. Brasil, in which [&hellip
What is Shadowrunning?
I shouldn’t have to explain myself here but Shadowrunning might just be obscure enough of a term to warrant a little defining. ” A Shadowrun, by definition, is an illegal covert operation performed by independent operators (Shadowrunners) at the behest of a third party. ” So what the hell does it have to do with [&hellip