Andréa Gilroy Katsuhiro Otomo produced work in the cyberpunk mode long before the 1988 animated adaptation of Akira made him a global icon of the sf genre. He began the Akira manga in 1982 and wrote and directed the segment “Construction Cancellation Order” in the 1987 anthology Neo-Tokyo. Shortly after Akira, he also wrote…
Anna McFarlane In the word ‘cyberpunk’ it is that ‘punk’ suffix that gives the term its edge of anarchic cool, the successful branding of which has arguably contributed to the enduring influence of the genre. The adoption of cyberpunk’s suffix by an endless number of descendants (steampunk, dieselpunk, solarpunk, etc.) has been used to…
Dann Lewis, Deakin University | The Mechanist inserted the needle, injecting a coppery liquid into Dirk’s vein. Dirk’s fingers had been blown off, his thigh pierced by the razor wire hooked on a piece of hanging sheet metal. The incendiary shell, cobbled together with scrap, flint and oil, had almost decimated Dirk— he should…