Cyberpunk is what the future used to look like -- at least to me. It was the big SF movement of my long gone youth and preparing these old stories (written almost a quarter of a century ago) for e-pub I recaptured some of the excitement I felt about it then. Cyberpunk was exciting for me. It was hip, it was hot, it was new, it was shiny. It reflected the realities of the strange dark age of the 1980s as I understood them. This was a world where economics was everything, where corporations ruled, where governments were the servants of financial interests. It's hard to remember that this was all science fiction back then-- it's simply our reality now. Of course, maybe it always was and I just did not know. There are things that tell you that … [Read more...]