“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss.” — Tade Thompson Copy Share Image
“Take it from me, kid, sometimes it’s okay to run. You run as fast as you damn well can.” — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“Reed had once warned that brains were untrustworthy – that like any computer, they could be hacked.” — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“The mind has doors...even as the body does. And when you drill new holes, you tap old hungers.” — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.” — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“the briefest flash of pale, pale ice over a thin-boned shoulder. Neon caught the red lotus splayed on her elbow and lit… — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The ocean was still and gray as a post-consumer touchscreen when she first spotted the island from the boat’s railing. A shade,… — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“They must train you pretty good not to react to shit like that. Must take stuff out of you.” Vince’s eyes intensified… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“As he walked...he picked up the holodreams of the suits... _I believe_. A yellow-suited man was flying one World War II plane… — Misha Copy Share Image
“Below her lay the deserted ant farm city. A skyscraper was her only shadow. Plasma gas globes and lava lamps gleaned. Ded… — Misha Copy Share Image
“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“...as my fist drove through her ribs. Bone cracked. Shifted. The numbers in my optics hit steel-bending digits and Muerte lost her… — K.C. Alexander Copy Share Image
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
“In print news your job is to know things about others, you peer out at the world through an arrow slit. In… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it,… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I had recognized her. They had tried to tear her out, but she had lived in me--deep in my heart and secret,… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“NOTE: The character of Aoleon is deaf. This conversation takes place in the book via sign language... “Feeling a certain kind of… — S.H. Robinson Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“The personal, as every one’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“A group of giant insectoid creatures floated to the area near the stage. One of them spoke in a series of clicks… — David Agranoff Copy Share Image
“We need them? Is that the best reason you can come up with? He laughed, a rasping, mechanical sound. "The kings of… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
