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Why is Cinematic Cyberpunk so Heteronormative?
Freedom is a terrifying thing. Even within the limit-breaking world of cyberpunk, we’re often afraid to embrace it. Our twitchy heroes stand up to humanity-enslaving machines, tyrannical AIs and the...
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The Best and Worst Vacation Spots in A Song of Ice and Fire
The sun is out, the birds are singing, and travel agents everywhere are gearing up for the busy season. That’s right, folks, it’s time to pack up your things and get on the Kingsroad! If you’re...
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A New Novella from Caitlin Kiernan — Agents of Dreamland
A new story from the winner of multiple World Fantasy, Tiptree, Locus, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards is always something to look forward to, and Agents of Dreamland doesn’t...
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Optimism and Access: The Line Between Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk
Calling Infomocracy a post-cyberpunk novel wasn’t my idea. I’m happy with the “cyberpunk” part. Infomocracy owes a huge debt to cyberpunk novels (not the least being compared to Snowcrash on its...
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Rackamore’s Retribution: Revealing Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger
Has there ever been a better time to be an Alastair Reynolds reader? Just yesterday I was singing the praises of The Medusa Chronicles, a surprisingly substantial and suitably excellent extension of...
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Suicide Song: End of Watch by Stephen King
The Bill Hodges trilogy that began with the Edgar Award-winning Mr Mercedes and continued in last year’s fearsome Finders Keepers comes to an uncharacteristically concise close in End of Watch, a...
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Cyborgs in the Real World
Electronic eyes, hologram-producing implants, haptic tattoos—these are all examples of body modification that you’ll find throughout cyberpunk fiction. When you learn about artists Neil Harbisson and...
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Measuring Doom With Precision Instruments: William Hope Hodgson’s “The Hog”
Welcome back to the Lovecraft reread, in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s sandbox, from those who inspired him to those who were inspired in turn. Today we’re...
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Dungeons & Dragons and the Art of Taking Risks
In this ongoing series, we ask SF/F authors to describe a specialty in their lives that has nothing (or very little) to do with writing. Join us as we discover what draws authors to their various...
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Snow Crash and Infinite Jest Both Predicted Our Cyberpunk Present
If you walked into a middle-class early ’90s living room, it would look pretty similar to what you’d see today: TVs, personal computers, video game consoles. Our stuff is just smaller now, and we use...
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Windswept Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
Adam Rakunas’s Like a Boss is out now from Angry Robot Books, and we want to send you a copy of it and the first book in the series, Windswept! In Like a Boss, former labor organizer Padma’s worst...
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The Temeraire Reread: Blood of Tyrants
Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the Temeraire Reread, in which I recap and review Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, one novel a week, leading up to the release of the final volume, League of Dragons, on...
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Don’t Touch That Dial: Summer 2016
Welcome back to “Don’t Touch That Dial,” a seasonal series in which I, your friendly neighborhood television addict, break down some of the shows screaming for your attention. Summer is a time for...
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Prepare for Cybernetically Enhanced Sports with S.B Divya’s Runtime
As part of Cyberpunk Week, we’re pleased to encore an excerpt from S.B. Divya’s exciting science fiction debut, Runtime—set in a gleaming cybernetic future that’s neither dystopia nor utopia, but...
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Slinging Drinks and Slinging Magic: Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by...
Are you one of those people who feels awkward around bartenders? Are you embarrassed because they clearly know so much more about alcohol than you do? Or do you perhaps you get the feeling, as they...
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Gaze into Sebastian Stan’s Face!
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind! When this stellar pair of Cap and Bucky cosplayers...
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Reinventing Cyberpunk in Mr. Robot
This article originally published September 11, 2015. Cyberpunk may have been one of the 1980s’ most quintessential subgenre-movement-phenomena, and it also may have been one of the quickest to descend...
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Building a Cyberspace Community — John Scalzi’s “Unlocked”
Set in the mid-21st century, John Scalzi’s Lock In proposes a world radically altered by disease. At first it seems like the flu. Then you’re permanently trapped inside your body. Awake and unable to...
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Discworld Comes to Life in Omar Rayyan’s Artwork for Mort
The Folio Society is publishing a new edition of Terry Pratchett’s Mort, a classic Discworld tale of Death and his young inept apprentice. For this special edition, award-winning artist Omar Rayyan has...
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John Boyega, Pacific Rim 2, and Why We Should All Be Celebrating This Sequel
It’s a rare and beautiful thing for a piece of news, especially genre fiction or casting news, to be undeniably, unequivocally good. But this week we got just that, as confirmation came in that not...
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