[–] [S] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

Thanks for that explanation! I hadn't read Market Forces yet since the description didn't sound very interesting to me, but this list made me think maybe I should give it a second look. I really enjoyed other Morgan novels (Altered Carbon, Thin Air) so I was willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt. I'll probably just skip it though.

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    It's always hard for me to find good newer cyberpunk novels. I can find random self-published novels all over the kindle store but it's hard to find new cyberpunk novels from actual publishers (with actual editors). So this list is really helpful for me. I've read some of them already and of the ones I know, I think this is a pretty solid list.

    Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (2002)
    Pattern Recognition - William Gibson (2003)
    The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi (2009)
    River of Gods - Ian McDonald (2004)
    Waste Tide - Chen Qiufan (2013; English translation 2019)
    Infomocracy - Malka Older (2016)
    Market Forces - Richard K. Morgan (2004)
    The Body Scout - Lincoln Michel (2021)
    Void Star - Zachary Mason (2017)
    36 Streets - T. R. Napper (2022)

     

    I would've expected this to be a season 2 announcement of the new The Ghost In The Shell anime, but the article calls it "A brand-new animation project based on Shirow Masamune's monumental cyberpunk manga Ghost in the Shell". It also says "Animation production for this new project will be handled by Science SARU, the studio behind the 2026 TV series." That makes it sound like the fact it's the same studio as the most recent anime is almost coincidental. Strange. I guess we'll found out more as details come out.

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    I don't listen to their music but I've always liked the band names:

    ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead

    and

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    Those names are just so ridiculous, I love them.

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    Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached to produce alongside CD Projekt Red

    I see two potential outcomes here. Either this movie never gets made or we'll wish it had never been made. Lorenzo di Bonaventura has previously produced movies such as Madame Web, Transformers: The Last Knight, the GI Joe movie Snake Eyes, and Doom: Annihilation (did you know they made a second Doom movie??). That isn't a good sign.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm always excited for any new cyberpunk movie and I will watch it if it comes out. I just know to set my expectations low.

     

    I'll admit I'm not a fan of life sim games so I won't be playing this one but if you enjoy life sims, this game looks really impressive.

    I've posted about it before so I don't know how much I need to explain again but it's from the makers of Cloudpunk, which was a cozy cyberpunk game where you just drove a flying taxi around a cyberpunk city. Now you can run a ramen shop in that same cyberpunk city in Nivalis Nights!

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/Nivalis_Nights/

     

    GLITCH WITCH shares both the world and timeline of THE GHOST IN THE SHELL. On April 10, 2029, while Motoko Kusanagi and Aramaki are preparing to establish Public Security Section 9 (commonly known as “Ghost in the Shell”), a series of incidents erupt across the United States. As the FBI, AI researchers, and the military investigate, they witness a fateful clash: the battle between Project 2501, the “Puppet Master”—with whom Motoko Kusanagi merges at the end of THE GHOST IN THE SHELL—and a Solomon-class AI holding the fate of humanity in its hands!

    https://theghostintheshell.jp/en/news/glitch-witch

    New issues posted online (in Japanese) every Wednesday.
    https://yanmaga.jp/comics/GLITCH_WITCH

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