Members: Paul Frankland.Genre: Ambient, Darksynth, Downtempo, Electronica, Instrumental, Synthwave.Biography:Woob is the stage name of Paul Frankland, an English ambient musician who started recording in the early 1990s. Woob’s albums combine elements of ambient, downtempo and space music, with samples from field recordings, movies and television. Frankland has also recorded under the names of Journeyman and Max & Harvey. After a period working in the advertising industry, he…
Agnes Czaja: Disconnect (2014) Alex Paknadel: Arcadia (2015-present) Annas Eskander: EYVA Ben Templesmith: Singularity 7 Brian K. Vaughn: The Private Eye (2015) Brian Wood: Channel Zero: • Channel Zero (1999) • Public Domain Designbook (2001) • Jennie One (2002) • Public Domain 2 (2009) RoboCop: Citizens Arrest (2018) Christopher Sebela: Crowded: • Crowded (2019) • Glitter Dystopia (2020) Dave Cook & Craig Paton: Killtopia Vol.…
AdvertCity (2015) CyberJudas (1996) Uplink Series: • Uplink (2001) • Hacker Elite (2003) The Red Strings Club (2018) VA-11 Hall-A (2016)
Release Date: 1980. Rating: Classic. Visions of a bleak, post-apocalyptic urban wasteland strewn with twisted hunks of mechanical wreckage. A rasping electronic buzz on the soundtrack. These impressions kick-start into a jarring, rapid-fire sequence of chrome, neon and showers of sparks alongside the howl of roaring motors, as boys in black leather with Be-Bop High School quiffs ride menacingly out into the night in the…
By Jason Werbeloff First Published: 2020 Finding Fingers is a two novel series that forms the books six and seven in Werbeloff’s The Bubble series. Manufacturing Margaret: The Cybernetic Dream Rating: Fingers celebrates his tenth birthday… By killing his older brother. Madrid, 2063. While the world watches the Spanish Bubble activate for the first time, a ten-year-old sociopath grinds glass into his brother’s icing sugar.…
By Adrian Tchaikovsky First Published: 2017 Rex is a Good Dog. He loves humans. He hates enemies. He’s utterly obedient to Master. He’s also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he’s part of a Multi-form Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of…
Members: Frank Marheineke, Jan Hennig. Genre: Drum & Bass, Techstep. Biography: Ono Sendai is the drum & bass side-project of producer Frank Marheineke and veteran club DJ, Jan Hennig. The a pair is better known for their work under the name Makai, which does share similarities with the Ono Sendai project. Taking their name from the device futuristic hacker Case uses in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Ono…
By Raphael Carter First Published: 1997 Maya Andreyeva is a “camera”, a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.
By Ian McDonald First Published: 2007 As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business–a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj–the waif, the mind reader, the prophet–when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks,…
By Marianne De Pierres First Published: 2006 “The world of Parrish Plessis is complex, frenzied, bloody and improbably dangerous.” The Tert war is over, and bodyguard Parrish Plessis has gotten a piece of the toxic pie-and the responsibilities that go along with it. To pay off a blood debt to the Cabal Coomera tribe, she must enter the heart of tekno-darkness-the slum town of Dis-to…
Editors: Roy C Booth & Jorge Salgado-Reyes First Published: 2016 Altered States II doesn’t just have cyberpunk in it! Cyberpunk seeps from its pores. Cyberpunk forms its building blocks like DNA forms ours. Stories by upcoming and established authors, curated by Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes. Featured Authors: Isaac Wheeler, William F. Wu, CC Aune, Sam S. Kepfield, Jay Barnson, Pedro Iniguez, RM Harper,…
William S. Burroughs First Published: 1971 The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating. And yes, this novel inspired the Duran Duran…
William S. Burroughs First Published: 1953-1958 In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history. Burroughs’s life during this period is limned in a startling…
By JG Ballard First Published: 1970 Easily one of the 20th century’s most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard lived far ahead of his time. Called his “prophetic masterpiece” by many, The Atrocity Exhibition practically lies outside of any literary tradition. Part science fiction, part eerie historical fiction, part pornography, its characters adhere to no rules of linearity or stability. This reissued edition features an introduction…