“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.” — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“I had a close encounter with an alien last week. He returned to visit us and was amazed we were still here.” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... with an ass-kicking.” — Mord McGhee 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
“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
“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“She liked the high places, away from the subterranean rage of the working class. No one was there to mirror her image… — Misha Copy Share Image
“Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs;… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma 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
“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
“...it's a sinister wonderland. My life, cleaned like a revolver, levels in the direction of happiness. Come on. It's a Marxian dream,… — Misha Copy Share Image
“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“You think we have a connection because of all the things you've sucked out of my mind by screening, but that isn't… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains… — Corey Taylor 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
“...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
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
“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
“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
“...you think cabling is unnatural--that's what your arguments all come down to. But it's not. Not between people that really fit. Maya,… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“You're sick. You were nearly killed. All kinds of shitheads are out to tear you to pieces. You were in pain, hungry,… — Misha 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
“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
