Post Cyberpunk
Post Cyberpunk is a sub genre of science fiction is a derivative variety of the Cyberpunk sub genre created as new writers and artists began to experiment with different cyberpunk ideas. Many post cyberpunk stories continue the focus on a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information and augmentation of the body but without the assumption of a dystopia.
Books Reviewed
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![Elysium BurningDDD Bryenton]()
Science FictionThis is a very interesting book, a sort of post-apocalyptic, post-cyberpunk tale that also weaves in a good dose of historic fantasy and mythology while told in a very confident voice dripping with poetic, imaginative prose. Essentially the story goes that the human race almost wiped itself complete...
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![The RoamersFrancesco Verso]()
Science FictionWhat if your physical body were no longer a lifelong commitment? What if we could, instead, free ourselves from that mortal constraint and simply inhabit the hardware you happened to be running at the time? This is the central question at the heart of Francesco Verso’s The Roamers , a novel of ideas...
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![Captain Marvel Shadow CodeGilly Segal]()
Science FictionAny fan of the Marvelverse will understand there are various aspects to it. You have your traditional superhero tales, but also those set-in space, or ones that feature magic. Captain Marvel has always been a character who spans them all. Captain Carol Danvers has seen it all in her adventures acros...
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![The Dervish HouseIan McDonald]()
Science FictionThe world of The Dervish house is a reflection of it's parent city of Istanbul which is itself a reflection of the nation of Turkey; ancient, paradoxical and divided like the brain of a human being. In the year 2027 on a swealteringly hot summers day there is a small explosion in Enginsoy Square, a...
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![The DieJude Berman]()
Science FictionThere are a lot of different ways to be smart and just because you are one, does not automatically make you the other. The classic is book versus street, you may know your way around an academic essay, but would fail to talk yourself out of a tricky situation outside the pub at closing time. If you...
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![Pink NoiseLeonid Korogodski]()
Science FictionPink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is a hard science fiction novel, the debut of Leonid Korogodski. Before I begin the review it's worth noting a few things to put this literay achievement into some perspective. Pink Noise is the first novel to be written by Leonid Korogodski, a native Ukrainian who gaine...
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![BasiliskMatt Wixey]()
HorrorI have read thousands of books, and they normally follow the same structural rules, but on occasion an author likes to experiment with the format. Perhaps they will forgo the need for speech marks and instead write people speaking as part of a sentence. No thanks. What about telling the story as a s...
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![Snow CrashNeal Stephenson]()
Science FictionSnow crash is an acclaimed speculative fiction novel by the award winning author Neal Stephenson. Never getting into the Cyberpunk thing and hating the much-hyped use of the word Cyber, I've stayed away from everything that fell within the Cyberpunk category, with William Gibson as the centre of my...
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![Running BlackP Todoroff]()
Science FictionRunning Black is a science fiction novel, the debut of Patrick Todoroff. For the last eight years, the North Korean mercenary Tam Song has headed up Eshu International, a private security team that takes any job for the right price, no questions asked. Based in the Belfast Metro Zone, they're repute...
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![VagabonderR T Coleman]()
Science FictionScience Fiction is one of the best genres because you can explore subjects via a prism of the future. Writing a book about how we treat others does not have to be told via a historic story, or the present, you can look far to the future and draw parallels between that world and ours. What would happ...
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![Harmonica and GigRJ Astruc]()
Science FictionWhen a territory engineer dies in suspicious circumstances, three qverse experts are brought in to investigate. Initially the three hacks choose to work separately on the case, but as they continue their investigations they discover clues leading to some of the most powerful figures in the qverse. S...
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![State of UnionSven Michael Davison]()
Science FictionState of Union follows on from the events of the authors previous novel, State of Mind - a post cyberpunk novel that we reviewed back in February 2011. Jake has been living off the grid for five years and returns to civilisation to find a nano-virus pandemic known as MaxWell has killed millions of p...
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![In the Lives of PuppetsT J Klune]()
Science FictionI am all for a retelling of a classic story, but some of them are not that close to the source material. Pinocchio is having a renaissance with two recent film adaptations and now a new cyber future take in T J Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets . I can see a puppet like creature, something resembling...
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![Vampires of AvonmouthTim Kindberg]()
HorrorThere are seminal books aplenty in genre fiction. These books are giants and other fiction stands on their shoulders to reach greater heights. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the biggest influences on the horror genre bringing with it a folklore and character that still resonates today. With Dracula...
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![NeuromancerWilliam Gibson]()
Science FictionReleased in 1984, Neuromancer was one of those rare moments that broke the mold, pretty much inventing the notion of cyberspace and beginning the genre of the cyberpunk novel. It's been many years since I first read this book and I am re-visiting it here as part of my desire to read all the Hugo awa...
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