{"id":14456,"date":"2015-02-01T03:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/paintwork-cyberpunk-stories-of-killer-augmented\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T03:11:12","slug":"paintwork-cyberpunk-stories-of-killer-augmented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/paintwork-cyberpunk-stories-of-killer-augmented\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintwork: cyberpunk++ stories of killer augmented reality mechas and QR code graffiti\u00a0writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/109690322492\/paintwork-cyberpunk-stories-of-killer-augmented\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/57a558ed17addc271e2495f5f6811088\/tumblr_inline_nj17hgimer1rkw4x1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Tim Maughan\u2019s self-published short story collection <a href=\"http:\/\/timmaughanbooks.com\/paintwork\/\">Paintwork<\/a> collects three of his stories, including the British Science Fiction Award-nominated story \u201cHavana Augmented.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn an era of \u201cpost-cyberpunk\u201d science fiction, Maughan is firmly<br \/>\ncyberpunk \u2014 or maybe \u201ccyberpunk++,\u201d a genre that captures all the grit<br \/>\nand glory of technology with a higher degree of plausibility and respect<br \/>\n for real computers and networks than the genre had in its glory days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cPaintwork,\u201d the first story, is a noirish, Gibsonian story of a<br \/>\ngraffiti writer in an econopocalypse-scoured Bristol, whose specialty is<br \/>\n elaborate augmented reality animations that he inserts into the public<br \/>\nconsciousness by overwriting the QR codes on advertisements. \u201cPaparazzi\u201d<br \/>\n is a story of gaming celebrity and global economics, with a wry and<br \/>\nfunny take on gold-farming that went to a place no other writer has<br \/>\nventured. The final novella, \u201cHavana Augmented,\u201d is justly famed as<br \/>\nMaughan\u2019s best work today: a political games\/AR thriller set in Havana,<br \/>\nwhere a bootleg augmented reality mecha combat game becomes part of the<br \/>\nCommunist Party\u2019s plan to liberalize the country\u2019s economy, and the<br \/>\nyoung rebel gamers who are caught up in the plot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaughan has a keen eye for the fictional possibilities of technology, a<br \/>\ngood hand with the what if\/ten seconds in the future mode of<br \/>\nstorytelling, and he\u2019s quite adept at filling his work with hyper-cool<br \/>\neyeball kicks. These stories are fun and thought-provoking, a great<br \/>\ncombination.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1463570465\/downandoutint-20\">Paintwork<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: Tim Maughan\u2019s self-published short story collection Paintwork collects three of his stories, including the British Science Fiction Award-nominated story \u201cHavana Augmented.\u201d In an era of \u201cpost-cyberpunk\u201d science fiction, Maughan is firmly cyberpunk \u2014 or maybe \u201ccyberpunk++,\u201d a genre that captures all the grit and glory of technology with a higher degree of plausibility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3La","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}