One of my favorite authors, Hamilton writes
about post-global warming Great Britain. Along with
Net hackers and Corporate takeovers, Hamilton has
created the ultra cool Mindstar,
psi-enhanced soldiers, the greatest of course being
hero Greg Mandel. Books include Mindstar
Rising, A Nano Murder, The Nano Flower, The
Reality Dysfunction.
The founding father of cyberpunk, Gibson paints
the ultimate picture of the Dark Future. Not to be
missed is his classic Neuromancer.
Other books include Count Zero, Mona Lisa
Overdrive, Virtual Light. Also wrote Johnny
Mnemonic.
One of the hottest cyberpunk authors to come
along since Gibson and Sterling. Catch a sample
with The
Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktor Palmer
Vreedeez. Books include The Brigade, A Song
Called Youth series, Silicon Embrace. Co-wrote The
Crow.
Author of Snow Crash, Neal is a favorite (and
fairly accessible) among many roleplayers. Check
out this great sample of the Stephenson touch with
his short story "Spew".
Most famous for Naked Lunch and The Soft
Machine, Burroughs is beyond esoteric at times
(I've yet to find a complete sentence from the man)
and makes for some wierd reading, but offers a
completely different look at the underculture of
the Dark Future. This is the man who inspired
William Gibson, as well as cyberpunk original
musician Gary
Numan.
William Gibson's tale of the adventures of a
mneumonic courier, carrying vital information in
his head that will kill him if he doesn't get it
out...or he can just leave it to the Yakuza, who
would love to cut off his head to retrieve it.
Stars Keanu Reeves as "Johnny..just Johnny".
Based on Phillip K. Dick's "Do Andriods Dream of
Electric Sheep?" this cyberpunk classic stars
Harrison Ford as Deckard, a rogue replicant hunter
in dark future Los Angeles. Great performance by
Rutger Hauer. Also the source for alot of Gary
Numan sampling and the inspiration for his song
Time To Die.
Funny and in-your-face, Tank Girl stars Lori
Petty as the post-apocalyptic, post-feminist hero
of the comic
book by the same name. Be sure to check out the
Tank
Girl homepage! Blam!
One of the longest film titles ever...and a
major cult classic. Peter Weller is Buckaroo
Bonzai, race car driver, rock star, nobel-laureate
physicist, and neurosurgeon, and the hero of his
own comic book to boot! Buckaroo accidentally frees
an exiled Red Plektroid madman who must be stopped
before the Black Plecktroids destroy the Earth.
Jeff Goldblum joins in one of his earliest roles as
Buckaroo's surgeon buddy New Jersey. Remember, no
matter where you go...there you are.
The Australian post-apocalypse series stars Mel
Gibson as Mad Max, cop turned wandering hero as
gangs battle over scarce gasoline. Stealing the
spotlight from Gibson is the Interceptor, the last
of the v8's. Check out the Mad
Max Chronology and the hilarious Dan
Man vs Mad Max.
Kurt Russell is Snake, fighting to survive and
accomplish impossible missions in the Dark Future's
two largest maximum security prisons. Also see the
Unofficial
Snake Enthusiasts Homepage.
Okay, so it's set a few hundred years too far in
the future to qualify as pure cyberpunk, but this
movie conveys the cyberpunk lifestyle to a tee!
Bruce Willis is NYC cab driver Korben Dallas, who
also just happens to be an ex-army special forces
officer and the only person who can save the Earth
from evil invaders.
Co-written by John Shirley, The Crow shows the
mood of cyberpunk even if it doesn't qualify as
strictly part of the genre. Brandon Lee's final
movie has him portraying murder victim Eric Draven,
who is brought back by a crow for his revenge.
He may not be well known, but Gary Numan was one
of the original cyberpunk artists, even if he
doesn't know what cyberpunk is (I'm working on
it...he'll get it eventually). The real life
inspiration for The
Numan, Gary wrote funky cyberpunk-themed songs
in the early 80's, taking his inspiration from
William S. Burroughs and Phillip K. Dick. Albums
Replicas and Telekon are his purest cyberpunk
works, with sci-fi musings about the merging of man
and machine. Gary himself served as inspiration for
the current generation of cyberpunk artists,
including Gravity Kills, Pop Will Eat Itself, and
Nine Inch Nails.
They don't know slow, and they don't know
soft...what they know is great Industrial! (Guess
what...Trent Reznor is gonna be doing a remix of
Numan's latest album Exile...I can't wait!)
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