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Paintwork: cyberpunk++ stories of killer augmented reality mechas and QR code graffiti writers
mostlysignssomeportents: Tim Maughan’s self-published short story collection Paintwork collects three of his stories, including the British Science Fiction Award-nominated story “Havana Augmented.” In an era of “post-cyberpunk” science fiction, Maughan is firmly cyberpunk — or maybe “cyberpunk++,” a genre that captures all the grit and glory of technology with a higher degree of plausibility and…
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brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr: Artwork by Nicolas Moulin In J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel High Rise, an ultra-modern apartment building becomes a place beyond society, its inhabitants slowly forming savage clans as they lose contact with the outside world. The work of Parisian artist Nicolas Moulin is informed by a similar mistrust of the march of progress, his images featuring…