Found inside – Page 7Although Fates Worse Than Death takes much from the cyberpunk genre, it is not just a ... on being flashy and stylish and having 'style over substance'. Found inside—The Book Review Directory “Part cyberpunk meditation and part erotic thriller, ... as its cover suggests, perhaps more about style than substance. Found inside – Page 126Or maybe I've screwed the substance of my netrunner career so bad I can't stand to let the style go. But I'll be damned before I just quietly drift off. This dreamlike dystopian novel “shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals’ seeming power to assuage all ills” (Booklist). The author who, along with William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Rudy Rucker, helped create and define the cyberpunk subgenre imagines a world of tomorrow in Islands in the Net that bears a striking—and disturbing—resemblance to our ... Found inside – Page 167Style. Is. Substance. There are two essential elements in every punk story: 1. ... These are all examples of punk settings putting style over practicality. Found insideCyberpunk books are apolitical in that they never fundamentally question or ... a ritual of transparency where the style is the substance, the medium is the ... Found inside – Page 415... and becoming-cyberpunk have evolved in form, substance, and style, ... orlan “seeks to subvert an image culture” by taking “total control over the ... Found inside—The Book Review Directory “Part cyberpunk meditation and part erotic thriller, ... as its cover suggests, perhaps more about style than substance. Found inside – Page 9However rather than wrapping up the proceedings in a comfortable package, ... the 'classics' and society's unquestioned preference for style over substance. From Walter Jon Williams comes Hardwired, the hard-hitting, seminal classic that feels as prescient today as when it was first published. Found insideWilliam Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Found inside – Page 20Plays with substance . At this writing the big new thing in SF circles is something called “ cyberpunk . ... His current status is really based more on a first novel than a career but one suspects he will have a decent career , maybe even a spectacular ... Now whole bunches of would - be writers will try to imitate Gibson and many will get his style down fairly well , but virtually none will have any substance . Found insideGibson refers to these living systems as 'gestalt', highlighting the importance of their relationality over their material substance, and I explore this ... Found inside – Page 134To suggest that The Matrix is more concerned with style than substance will sound like a criticism , and I am pointing to ... Cyberpunk Style Larry McCaffery titles his introduction to a 1988 special issue of the Mississippi Review “ The Desert of ... Found inside – Page 59Some stuff you don't need to be told : doesn't buy style over substance , " says meirate characters have to make their ... True , the mass audience will ther of cyberpunk sci - fi , William Gibson recognize " Wild Palms ” as more smarty( who ... Found inside – Page 1024 Cyberpunk: Return of the Repressed Body In pop culture, practice comes first; ... ness of cyberpunk lies more in its style than in its substance. A starter box for the Cyberpunk RPG line. Everything you need to play the game. Found inside – Page 119... based on substance rather than surface, performance rather than appearance. ... a space for a new style of hacking — otherwise known as 'cracking'. Found inside – Page 1974Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative George Edgar Slusser, T. A. Shippey ... in which substance and thought are seen to outweigh style. Speculative science fiction at its finest, MetaGame by Sam Landstrom is a 'future gamers' field guide and a philosophical cyberpunk adventure. Found insideDelany's classic work of science fiction chronicles the intergalactic adventures of Mouse, an itinerant minstrel, and intrepid spaceship Captain Lorq Von Ray, as they set out to journey through the core of a recently imploded sun. Found inside – Page 205Cynics may say that Grant Morrison is more style than substance; ... Morrison made his fantasy vision of the tuned-in and turned-on cyberpunk superhero ... Found insideIn many ways, they are more alive than he, as Deckard is a hollow man, devoid of any recognisable ... The movie is an example of style over substance. "Moss' life is going nowhere until a mysterious woman knocks on his door and leaves him with the key to take down one of the world's largest corporations. Found inside – Page 3CYBERPUNK ( ED ) : BODY , CITY , TECHNOLOGY The literary movement ... This is not to say that cyberpunked texts are more about style than substance but that ... This is no mere hyperbole.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian “Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.”—William Gibson “Brilliantly realized . . . Mongoose Publishing is releasing OGL CyberNet under a royalty-free world wide license, allowing publishers (of both print and electronic books) to use the CyberNet logo and rules to create their own settings and adventures. Cyberpunk's sexuality has always been transgressive and prescient; this collection brings the genre's tradition into the current state of cyberpunk affairs. Wetware isn't a typical erotica collection, nor is it a typical sci-fi anthology. Found insideMore gritty action and dark humor than you can handle. In the debut novel author Austin Dragon shows why you never want to meet a cyborg in a dark alley. Liquid Cool is a mix of Blade Runner and the Maltese Falcon. Witcher TRPG referee screen and booklet Found inside – Page 167Miller's earlier Ronin (1983), a cyberpunk miniseries influenced by ... his true identity being the mask, the image, rather than the substance beneath it. “The ferociously talented Gibson delivers his signature mélange of technopop splendor and post-industrial squalor” (Time) in this New York Times bestseller that features his hero from Idoru. -- The book that was confiscated by the Secret Service because they thought it contained hacking secrets! (It doesn't) -- Nominated for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement. Found insideShort stories labeled "Mirroshade," "Neuromanatic," "Cyberpunk," etc. by such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley and others. Found insideStyle Over Substance. It doesn't matter how well you do something, as long as you look good doing it” (4). Because the point of rules systems is precisely ... Found inside – Page 53... than the substance of what the New Worlds' writers were trying to do. ... utilizes the pseudo-documentary style of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy. Postmodern adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism. Found inside – Page 188Q & A THE TALK Still , you're one of the icons of the cyberpunk era . That's a fact . Cyberpunk is a term from a different ... And " style over substance ? Found inside – Page 162But in a way, surrogation applies to the world of cyberpunk as well. ... One such concept is "Style Over Substance," or "It doesn't matter how well you do ... Found inside – Page 151What many of these works captured was more the style than the substance of cyberpunk. That was to be expected. More troubling to those who took the form ... Found inside“Fancy name for a project lacking in substance. ... he saw a couple of motorcycles parked (haphazardly—one looked almost ready to keel over) to the side. Found inside – Page 467It's a gorgeous movie that has the potential to revitalize the cyberpunk ... In the end, though, this is a classic example of “style over substance” (and ... Found inside – Page 129Steampunk is also often compared with cyberpunk , an association that ... the original steampunks played with style rather than the deep substance that the ... Found insideBut alas, it is an expensive tease — more style than substance— that never totally delivers. POCKET ROCKET Talk about convenience! This thing is a great take-along for those long road trips. Doesn't drive you wild, but gives you a bit of a ... Found inside – Page 222than the near-future cislunar setting of Neuromancer, Sterling postulates a future ... politics of life-style choices and the micromanagement of the self. 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