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unusual facts about Cyberpunk



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"A City in Florida" was featured in the 2011 video game Saints Row: The Third, appearing on the in-game radio station "97.6 K12 FM", primarily associated with the cyberpunk "Deckers" gang.

Black Ice / White Noise

A would-be cyberpunk action/adventure set in San Francisco 40 years in the future, BIWN uses a large 3D city like Grand Theft Auto.

Bruce Sterling bibliography

Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) - defining cyberpunk short story collection, edited by Bruce Sterling; ISBN 0-441-53382-5

Cenobita

Drawing musical inspirations the electro-industrial sound of Skinny Puppy & Front Line Assembly, and conceptual inspiration from the 'cyberpunk' works of William Gibson.

Cowboys International

The song "Wish" from The Original Sin was an inspiration for the song "You Ain't Got Me" by French cyberpunk band Punish Yourself as stated on the sleeve notes of their Pink Panther Party album.

Curse of the Hidden Mirror

John Shirley, a renowned author of cyberpunk science fiction, wrote the lyrics for many songs of the album.

Cyberdelic

In 1992, Billy Idol became heavily influenced by the cyberdelic subculture and the cyberpunk fiction genre.

Cyberella

Written by Howard Chaykin and drawn by Don Cameron the title has been variously described as a techno-satire and a populist cyberpunk dystopia.

Distrust That Particular Flavor

Since making a name for himself as a leading figure in the cyberpunk genre with his Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson has been primarily known as a writer of science or speculative fiction.

Futureculture

An indication for the popularity of Future Culture during its hey-days, is that the group was mentioned on Billy Idol's album Cyberpunk.

Gibsonian

William Gibson, science fiction writer and founder of the cyberpunk movement

GURPS Cyberpunk

Loyd Blankenship, who was hired by Steve Jackson Games in 1989, was close to finishing GURPS Cyberpunk later that year, which was intended both to get SJG into the cyberpunk genre which had been popular in the RPG industry for the last two years, and to help SJG get over a financial hurdle and back into the black.

Information wants to be free

In the cyberpunk world of post-singularity transhuman culture by Charles Stross, described in his books like Accelerando and Singularity Sky, the wish of information to be free is a law of nature.

Jaime Levy

In 1993, she worked with EMI Records where she designed, animated, and programmed the first commercially released interactive press kit (IPK) for Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk CD digipack.

Johnny Mnemonic

It takes place in the world of Gibson's cyberpunk novels, predating them by some years, and introduces the character Molly Millions, who plays a prominent role in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of novels.

Lars Bom

Lars Bom has worked in a variety of roles in Theatre, Film and Television, and won the Best Actor award at the Italian Fantafestival in 1999, for his starring role in the cyberpunk-thriller Skyggen (1998).

Lewis Call

He is best known for his 2002 book Postmodern Anarchism, which develops an account of postmodern anarchism through philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunk writers such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

Megacorporation

Such organizations are a staple of science fiction long predating cyberpunk, appearing in the works of writers such as Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Thea von Harbou (Metropolis), Robert A. Heinlein (Citizen of the Galaxy), Robert Asprin (The Cold Cash War) and Andre Norton (the Solar Queen novels).

Sam119

Reviewer Glenn Carter of Comics Bulletin described SAM119 issue 1 as: "a blend of Cyberpunk, William Gibson, and George Orwell", and there are clear indications of the influence of writers such as Gibson on the work.

SFRA Pioneer Award

1994 - Larry McCaffery and Takayuki Tatsumi, "Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop"

Sindome

Sindome is a cyberpunk MOO (a text-based online virtual reality system to which multiple users are connected at the same time).

Society Burning

Over the next two years, the musicians worked mostly independently: Daveoramma worked with a cast of voices to bridge songs for the parody/tribute album Cyberpunk Fiction while Boom chr Paige worked as remixer for artists including Leæther Strip, Purr Machine, THD, Urania, Hexedene, and Battery.

Steppin' Razor

Molly Millions, fictional character also known as "Steppin' Razor", in the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

Straylight Run

The band's name was taken from the final section of William Gibson's cyberpunk science-fiction novel Neuromancer.

Tape from California

"Half a Century High," a portrait of haunting by televisual media, works as a proto-Cyberpunk document, foreshadowing such bleak futures as The Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus and Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

Terminal Power Company

Formed in 1989 in Birmingham, UK, by Paul Aspel and John Roome, designed specifically to be a "cyberpunk band", the band cited many diverse visual influences on their music.

The Binary Cafe

The full name of the establishment was actually The Binary Café and Hexadecimal Emporium, a name which reflected the two main components of the space—serving food and drinks, and selling cyberpunk-related books, magazines, and zines.

The Death of Koschei the Deathless

The Morevna Project is an open-source/free-culture film project creating an animated adaptation using Synfig of this story reset in a cyberpunk science-fiction future.

Walter De Brouwer

He then published the cyberpunk magazine Wave, edited by Michel Bauwens and designed by Niels Shoe Meulman.


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