Wired shares excerpts from a recent interview with Bruce Sterling on what science fiction can teach its readers about fascism, and about what science fiction has to learn about itself.

“There’s a kind of rhetorical trick that goes on in science fiction, and in fascism, that kind of says, ‘Don’t really worry about what this means for the guy next ( Read more... )

• Antipope hosts a guest blogger with an interesting vision for a new iteration of cyberpunk.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares a link to a report on Saudi Arabian water resources.
• Centauri Dreams shares a study of nearby brown dwarf WISE 0855.
• Crooked Timber notes the amoral technocracy of the Speers.
• Dangerous Minds shares vintage postcards ( Read more... )

Thursday night showing's of Akira at the Revue Cinema in Roncesvalles happily did not disappoint. The showing itself could have been better: the start time was delayed, but more frustratingly the organizers kept having sound trouble, starting with the dubbed version and then trying to get the sound going on the subtitled one only to opt for the ( Read more... )

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"While the Earth Sleeps", a collaboration of Peter Gabriel with Deep Forest, the latter group sampling Bulgarian folk singer Katya Petrova, is the terminal song on the soundtrack of the sadly underrated 1995 proto-cyberpunk movie Strange Days. This fan video is conveniently local, pairing footage of a trip down the Don Valley Parkway with the ( Read more... )

Oh God. No. Why?

Neo might be returning to the big screen, according to the original spoon-bender, Keanu Reeves himself. Reeves just spilled the beans on the Wachowskis' plans to make two more Matrix movies ( Read more... )

It's because of Cyberpunk 2020 that I know why Turkey's not likely to get into the European Union.

Cyberpunk 2020 is a roleplaying game setting in the classic dystopic cyberpunk mode: advanced computer and biotech, oppressive governments, hegemonic corporations, environmental decay, and the beaten-down yet struggling individual. One of its ( Read more... )

I only ever heard British rock band Skunk Anansie's 1995 song "Selling Jesus" because I happened to buy the movie Strange Days's enjoyable soundtrack album. Notable career though the band might have had, I'm still into it only for this song.

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As you may have gathered by watching the video and actually listening to the music, it's a bit of an angry ( Read more... )