Comments on: Do you beg for mercy? Enough Hello Kitty?

By: Dystopian Future visions only on economic heights! at cyberpunk2020.de

Dystopian Future visions only on economic heights! at cyberpunk2020.de — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:41:17 +0000

[...] Cirlot and I are just now discussing why cyberpunk seems to be big in Germany, but not in the US. I think it has something to do with economic circles and the fact that Germanys more advanced social security system prevented the necessary angst till now (Germany just saw a massive decrease in social security in the last years. We are back to public soup kitchens!) [...]

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:04:39 +0000

My pleasure. There will be a review of the book online soon. But probably in german

By: Cirlot

Cirlot — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:22:17 +0000

Much obliged.

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:06:33 +0000

James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel, Editors: Rewired
ISBN: 978-1-892391-53-7
$ 14,95, paperback.

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:44:55 +0000

I need to get home to look up the Editors of Wired. Will post tomorrow.

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:43:37 +0000

Well, the different economic circles might have something to do with the current interest in Cyberpunk in Germany at the moment. Actually, we are doing very good at the moment. See here.

By: Dystopian Future visions only on economic heights! « cyberpunk2020

Dystopian Future visions only on economic heights! « cyberpunk2020 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:40:41 +0000

[...] in cyberpunk, cyberpunk2020, english post, movie, rpg by cyberpunk2020 on February 23rd, 2008 Cirlot and I are just now discussing why cyberpunk seems to be big in Germany, but not in the US. I think it has something to do with economic circles and the fact that Germanys more advanced [...]

By: Cirlot

Cirlot — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:10:52 +0000

I’d opt for +2 talking with your hands with an additional +1 to obscene gestures.

What can I say – the best bits of any language are the . . . colorful metaphors.

As for Rewired, no I haven’t, haven’t heard of it at all, actually. In my defense I’m hampered by my local bookstores – in a city as big as Boston you’d expect to find great ones but the only viable stores seem to be mass market chains. The smaller privately owned bookstores tend towards “serious” fiction and a few of the fantasy/SF staples. Who publishes the book and is there an editor/primary author I could search by?

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:51:36 +0000

Hounds Firearms Blog is a even better source for guns, he gives stats for the guns, too. And there is Cyberpunk2121

By: cyberpunk2020

cyberpunk2020 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:56:50 +0000

How about reducing the driving penality by 1 and giving you a +2 circumstance bonus to eating spaghetti with a fork only?

Did you read “Rewired”? It claims to be a post-cyberpunk story collection. I just read it and still try to figure out what post-cyberpunk might be. Maybe that would help us to figure out where we are.