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But then again I am somewhat the opposite of Alan Moore, in that I regard screen adaptations of my work with little more than simple childlike curiosity.
—William Gibson on the Neuromancer film
Ray Fenwick’s Illustrated Guide to a Life of Mystery.
Tiny Showcase Presents the first in a new series of mildly factual, mostly fictitious, educational posters.
(↝via MB)
Is it necessary for me to point out that in the detail views all the little phrases in the background (the witchmaster’s key, the melted coins, devil’s paw, missing chums) are Hardy Boys titles?
For debate: The Cyberpunk Timeline.
“Never Mind the Bullocks”?
through 1992 that’s a pretty good list.
Time article from 1993. amazing read.
Now a new subculture is bubbling up from the underground, popping out of computer screens like a piece of futuristic HYPERTEXT
oh man, more nuggets of greatness:
The newest, a glossy, big-budget entry called Wired, premiered last week with Bruce Sterling on the cover and ads from the likes of Apple Computer and AT&T. Cyberpunk music, including ACID HOUSE and INDUSTRIAL, is popular enough to keep several record companies and scores of bands cranking out CDs. Cyberpunk-oriented books are snapped up by eager fans as soon as they hit the stores. (Sterling’s latest, The Hacker Crackdown, quickly sold out its first hard-cover printing of 30,000.) A piece of cyberpunk performance art, Tubes, starring Blue Man Group, is a hit off-Broadway. And cyberpunk films such as Blade Runner, Videodrome, Robocop, Total Recall, Terminator 2 and The Lawnmower Man have moved out of the cult market and into the mall.
nostalgic cyberpunk retrofuturism is so late 2004 / early 2005.