articles Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights There are risks connected to the use of robotics and AI technologies. Can an artificial intelligence create a Memory of itself? Remembrances? Lives?
articles A Science Fiction Journey: Where does Sci-Fi come from? How define the origin of the science fiction? It is near impossible. You would have to trace the entire path of stories, plots, novels, short stories, narratives of all kinds.
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 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.
