How To Use Cyberpunk In A Sentence
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With my evident interest in sociobiology, this was too good a parallel to pass up, so I figured I'd try to mash together the cyberpunks with the PUAs and see what came out the other end, while addressing some interesting things I noted in Strauss's text.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
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The emphasis is on rebuilding society, rather than cyberpunk's appetite for destruction.
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Far too many hackers and cyberpunks weren’t programmers at all—they were referred to contemptuously as “point-and-clickers.”
The Blue Nowhere
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It takes the cyberpunk circus routines of Archaos and gives then a high-tech edge.
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It's kind of dismaying to realize that Bruce Sterling's recommended cyberpunk canon is almost exactly ten years old.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Some people follow the cyberpunk genre quite closely, and for them this novel is a must-read.
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With No Maps, Neale more or less becomes cyberpunk's Errol Morris, a documentary filmmaker who likes his subjects to do the talking while he, armed with a low budget and high aspirations, attempts to visually literalize their speech.
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The result is a collection of songs that shift like sands, with cyberpunk, strings, looped beats and urbane poetry blurring the divide between rock and the experimental.
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On the other hand, it is extremely enjoyable to read especially if you like techno-fiction and are in the mood for some tongue-in-cheek cyberpunk.
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The advent of a blood-powered fuel-cell, intended for use in implanted prostheses, is a real cyberpunkian turn of affairs, rips for plot-twists regardign vampiric blood-farms powering illicit banks of icebreakers and the like.
Boing Boing: May 8, 2005 - May 14, 2005 Archives
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Today's Hollywood scriptwriters and futurists , less skilled heirs of the original cyberpunk tradition, have embraced these neurotechnologies.
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Along with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in the 80s she was a leading figure in the new generation of Cyberpunk writers who brought a hardbitten tone to traditional sci-fi.
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Gibson all but invented the cyberpunk subgenre, and is also responsible for writing Johnny Mnemonic.
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It's also possible that Miike is satirizing the cyberpunk genre, as payback to Gibson and other cyberpunk authors and filmmakers, for their relentless fetishizing of Japanese culture.
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So, this oversight is unfortunate - to compensate, readers should check out Leonard's excellent essay on cyberpunk in When the Kissing Had to Stop.
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It's this sinister sparkle that has drawn me to the genre of cyberpunk in fiction, film, and even to an extent in music, for many years.
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The cyberpunk is usually an outsider * not* of his/her own choosing, but because the structure of society is inherently unfair and favors the rich (who usually have to intentionally buy into or perpetrate the evils of society to get that way, ala the Bush Administration or, well, the 80s, when the genre was at its height.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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This fascinating novel, an interesting cross between hard science fiction, riot grrls gone wild and cyberpunk which has yet to pick up a U.S. publisher, deals with a two-strand narrative.
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Sentimental and religious motifs, which are paradoxically powerful in Russian cyberpunk, sometimes lend this work characteristics of autoparody.
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One of the interesting things about steampunk is that it hasn't formed an expectation of tone in the same way that something like cyberpunk has.
The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
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It differs from cyberpunk in that cyberpunk was not a product of technologically savvy authors.
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If you're a fan of experimental film, a fan of Lynch or Cronenberg, a fan of cyberpunk, then Tetsuo is pretty much required viewing and this, simply, is the version to view.
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My first few novels, including The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, are fantasy — but the next project on my slate is a YA cyberpunk novel.
FANTASY… IN… SPAAAAAACE!! «
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While ‘Snow Crash’ seemed to be a caricature of previous cyberpunk novels, in this novel Neal Stephenson succeeds in inventing a new future universe with special idiosyncrasies.
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Given that Interzone took its name from Burroughs's city, I think its fair to say that while "Jingling Geordie's Hole" lies, as I recall, at the extreme end of its output at that time, a certain "fucked-up" aesthetic was at play in those early days of the magazine, before Cyberpunk, before the New Space Opera, before the New Weird, or Mundane-SF, or even Infernokrusher.
Why Do I Infernokrush?
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It reminded us that, for all the California-Wired-Hollywood bluster, cyberpunk was essentially a British invention, synthesized first through fictions and sonics then theory.
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In Neuro, it will be the world of sci-fi and cyberpunk.
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In defense of our approach, I would say only that ours can include the modern primitives, and also include Zen, Sufism, The Troubadours, western anarchism, cyberpunk, punk rock, cubism, Voltaire, ad infinitum.
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Like the cyberpunks, these writers give us an 'inroad' for understanding and adapting to rapid change in technology.
Archive 2004-02-01
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It metaphorises cyberpunk's social instabilities into an alarming maelstrom of biological uncertainty: exaggerated clarity becomes exaggerated anxiety.
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Fully updated to include terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, from cyberpunk to antanaclasis, the Second Edition is ingeniously designed to tackle the less obvious terms that students and general readers will encounter.
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What is the difference between playing pinball games and video games, snowboarding and surfing, or reading cyberpunk vs. traditional science fiction?
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The cyberpunk hackers, crackers, phreakers, cyphers, and cyberchic not only expose corporate crimes and misdemeanours, they also penetrate corporate and governmental computer systems and cause occasional havoc.
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But then they are old school corporate in terms of cyberpunk.
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This story would be highly unremarkable if not for the fact that William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and cyberpunk pioneer, wrote a little rhapsody to the Selectric type ball.
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The resulting sub-genre, cyberpunk, broke from old-school science fiction by focusing on all-pervasive quantum-based technologies such as genetic engineering and microprocessing.
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What I did not know until tonight, whilst reading Downloading Midnight by William Browning Spencer (a so-far excellent cyberpunk novelette) was that mendicant is a real word and not a made-up construct.
Mendicants Can't Be Choosers
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You can become a cyborg, get involved in Cyber Rights, cyberdemocracy, cyberpunk, cyberdrama, even cyberpsychology.
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Then, in the mid-80s, just as cyberpunk came along, I got a job as a computer programmer and walked away from the sects and finished my thesis, and within a short time was organising an SF club at work and writing The Star Fraction.
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This is where Spinoza converges with cyberpunk, and hence with Deleuze-Guattari, cyberpunk's main theoretical program.
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Its design incorporates ideas from cyberpunk and film noir; its plot embraces our fears about genetic manipulation and man/machine conflict.
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The genres, however, include a variety of subgenres, such as cyberpunk, punk, funk, dramatised Western style, goth, lolita, and warmono.
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The term slipstream was coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in an article originally published in SF Eye #5, July 1989.
New Wave Fabulists: "Make It Weird"
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In the novel "Virtual Light," cyberpunk author William Gibson envisages a Mexico City of the near future where the air is a sooted ebon and the populace wears oxygen masks.
The city's "apocalypse" has come and gone
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It was a fun mix of futuristic cyberpunk and western.