articles Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail
articles Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead? In Science Fiction the plot is fairly linear, with characters defined and more or less recognizable in patterns. In Cyberpunk, linearity is broken, protagonist-situation relationships are complex and ambiguous.
reviews Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic: On human empowerment and control Johnny Mnemonic is a hymn and a warning to human empowerment and control through dermal chips and the control of biological neural networks.
