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New = Heavy Asian influence, including cool samurai swords.īack in the ‘80s, there was also something else happening on the economic stage: the rise of Japan as a major economic global power. But interestingly, there are many people fighting to make sure neither one ever does.Ģ) Old = Japan rules the world.

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Well, this is not the ‘80s and it’s okay to feature the dastardly megacorporation like the Weyland Yutani Corporation from the Alien movies, but we’re missing the big, fat elephant in the room-government! My series has its own “Cold War” but the antagonists are mega-corporations and uber-governments-both vying against each other for ultimate control. The ubiquitous, all-powerful megacorporations controlling governments or replacing them altogether. This has not only been a staple of cyberpunk, but many books and movies, especially conspiracy ones. New = Mega-corporations and Uber-governments. Here’s a list of the signature elements of the old cyberpunk and how my new cyberpunk series will be different and refreshing:ġ) Old = Mega-corporations. I would be a writer from that 2015 and beyond, pretend I was back in the ‘80s, and write a different dystopian future.

I wanted to re-imagine cyberpunk not as a writer in the ‘80s projecting out to 2015 and beyond. That’s not particularly creative in my mind. How? Construct a future from the current time into a cyberpunkish future? Nope. With my new cyberpunk series, I put my on own twist on the sub-genre. But cyberpunk gave us a new twist that endeared not only me, but millions of others and has never completely gone away. Classic science fiction on television like The Twilight Zone and The (original) Outer Limits more often than not showed very dystopian futures and science (or man) gone awry. Mary Shelley gave us the first science fiction novel with Frankenstein in 1818 and it was a dark and frightening one. The darker side of science fiction is not new. Enter cyberpunk and dystopian science fiction. Science fiction writers can show us the hopeful, but they can also show us versions of the likely, or what they feel to be likely based on the current society. Remember that back in the ‘80s we were still in the Cold War-America versus the Soviet Union. To many, even the fans of Star Trek, that seemed wishful thinking, at best. Why the interest in this category of science fiction? Until it came on the scene, most of the science fiction was utopian, “Star Trek-ian,” man and society evolving into something better. In fact, I was surprised by how much the genre is still regarded when its golden years, at least in Hollywood, ended back around 1985-that’s thirty years ago now-though interest exploded again with the Matrix trilogy, but the first Matrix movie was sixteen years ago! A few months back, I surveyed my own list of readers and fans to be surprised by the interest in cyberpunk science fiction.

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Dick and William Gibson are the most famous the singular greatest movie of the genre is Ridley’s Scott’s classic Blade Runner from 1982. Yes, I’m writing a new science fiction series in a sub-genre called cyberpunk.

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