Tag: cyberpunk
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Inside the Head of D. Harlan Wilson
It is harder than you might think to write good Bizarro fiction. Practically anyone can conjure up a weird scene about people with goat heads or a beard crawling off someone’s face, but few can write about it with the crisply entertaining panache of D. Harlan Wilson. Wilson’s novel, Peckinpah (2009, Shroud Publishing), is described…
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Interview With Steve Aylett
This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…
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no absolute future: Bruce Sterling interviewed by Rachel Haywire
I’ve found an interesting new internet presence. Trigger Warning is a California LLC that was started in 2015 by Rachel Haywire of INSTED. It is a new media entity that houses a unique network of writers, artists, journalists, and cultural innovators; offering a provocative alternative to the liberal paradigm of our current media narrative. It…
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Cyberpunk Can’t Die
I’ve started reading three or four books in the past week and set them aside because I just couldn’t stay interested. But finally, I’ve latched on to a good one! I’m reading Time Heist by Anthony Vicino. It’s the real thing. I’ll even give Vicino a free pass for promoting himself in this article he…
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30 Years of Future: Essential Cyberpunk
Via iO9, Diana Biller writes: It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read. Read More
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Inside the Head of D. Harlan Wilson
It is harder than you might think to write good Bizarro fiction. Practically anyone can conjure up a weird scene about people with goat heads or a beard crawling off someone’s face, but few can write about it with the crisply entertaining panache of D. Harlan Wilson. Wilson’s novel, Peckinpah (2009, Shroud Publishing), is described…
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Voltaire and Aylett: Two Peas in an Alien Pod
It’s a good thing Steve Aylett writes “little books,” as The Complete Review calls them. Aylett’s books are so dense with information and ideas, if they were any bigger they would sink like slabs of gold into our gray tributaries. This is one of the reasons I enjoy them. In fact, I deliberately chose gold over…
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Satire, Cyberpunk, and Synesthesia
Preliminary notes on my Steve Aylett thesis. I used to called Aylett’s work a combination of cyberpunk, satire, and psychedelia. But “psychedelia” is too limited, too narrow. Aylett’s work is characterized by three things: Cyberpunk settings, classic satire, and a visual image orientation. I. Cyberpunk a. Rudy Rucker’s definition of cyberpunk: “Fast and dense. It…
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Bill interviews Steve Aylett
Peter Lavery, Tanith Lee, Jeff VanderMeer, Richard Calder, Steve Aylett and Becky Ohlsen, photo by PaulBrazier This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks on May 25, 2006 and later on the interview page of my website. Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book,…
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Is What Cyberpunk?
I can give you a vague definition of cyberpunk with terms like “noir future” and “distopia,” but Rudy Rucker says it better and really whets my appetite to know more. Here’s an excerpt from What Is Cyberpunk: Proximately, “cyberpunk” is a word coined by Gardner Dozois to describe the fiction of William Gibson. Gibson’s novel…