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Cyberpunk

Twenty minutes in the future.
Orbital corpos.
Indecent fortunes
and endemic poverty.
Freewheeling technology.
Information warfare.
Akashic matrix.
Techmercs looking for juicy contracts.
Temptations and desires.
You.
Up to your neck.

In memory of Lou Reed,
the cyberpunker before cyberpunk.

I remain convinced that a journalist is not an altar boy and that his role does not consist in preceding processions, with his hand dipped in a basket of rose petals. Our job is not to please, nor to do harm, it is to take the pen to the wound.

—Albert Londres

Texts and illustrations

Le Grümph

Corrections

Le Surcapitaine, Myrkvid, Matthieu Chalaux, Stéphane Treille, Nadège Debray, Frédric ‘Danilo’ Toutain

Testers, guinea pigs and suppliers of ideas

Zeben, Selpoivre, Paradoks, Miss Mopi, Clément, Yan, Corben, Riko, Rafael, François 6PO, Anne, Pym and no doubt a few others who will excuse my old age and my failing memory…

Thanks to François Lalande and Éric Nieudan for the title and to Gudruniel for the cover… one is never so well helped as by others.

JdR programme p.5: Jérôme ‘Brand’ Larré

Inspirations

Wired (Walter Jon Williams); Mediapart; the Greg Mandel trilogy (Peter F. Hamilton); the Kovacs trilogy (Richard Morgan); Dark Angel (James Cameron); Cyberpunk 2013 and 2020 (Michael Pondsmith); A Thousand Billion Dollars (Henri Verneuil); Person of Interest (Jonathan Nolan); No Ordinary Family (Greg Berlanti); Strange Days (Katheryn Bigelow); Suits (Aaron Korsh)…

Playlist

The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Cure, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, Joy Division, The Hidden Orchestra, LCD Soundsystem, Justice, Jefferson Airplane, Archive, Ladytron, The Doors, She Wants Revenge, Enslaved, Meshugga, Public Enemy, NWA, Escape from New York OST (John Carpenter)…