Yesterday, Cyberpunk's social media channels released one of their walls of text on gaudy yellow background, in which they apologised for releasing the broken console versions of Cyberpunk 2077, the same ones they gave no review copies for and let no one try out before release because...Hmm. That is a tough one. While I think... Continue Reading →
Book Recommendation: Neuromancer
William Gibson created the "archetypal cyberpunk work," even if he eventually grew to hate the term which now connotes an entire subgenre of sci-fi. It's a wonderful, fascinating book, Neuromancer, and I will attempt to persuade you to read it! “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” What... Continue Reading →
Writing Advice: The Basics of Sci-Fi
To take some liberty with a quote by the great Philip K. Dick, fantasy is about things that are conceivably impossible, whereas science fictions is all about the conceivably possible. Both genres are about writing, discovering and experiencing new things, but science fiction takes on these three objectives with a different toolset; it is ideas... Continue Reading →