Fake Plastic Futures | Wipeout Omega Collection
Playing any racing game is an act of almost ruthless efficiency in decision-making. Failing to correctly lean into a turn or take a…
Tag: Cyberpunk
Technological Oppression | Remember Me
The term “Dystopia” is thrown around all too often, usually as a uncritical hair-trigger response when describing something that looks remotely futuristic and…
Wire in the Blood | Nex Machina
“They decided our fate in microsecond: extermination.” — Kyle Reese, The Terminator “Nex Machina” is Latin for “death machine”, a title that seems…
The New Flesh | Observer
Observer is the rare cyberpunk story that refuses to fetishize its milieu, even today, 30 years after the genre’s inception. William Gibson’s early…
The Cyberspace we Forgot | Neuromancer
The fingerprints of Neuromancer, William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel, can be seen all over contemporary pop culture. It popularised the terms “cyberspace” and…
The Tyranny of Kawaii | Tokyo 42
Every cyberpunk story, great or otherwise, is defined through the language of urban spaces. Were we to draft a composite sketch of the…