Witchpunk - no narration, no Gen AI, 33 actors in season one, - we got all the cyberpunk, the drama, the angry combat witches, the past-it gunman, the searching pilot, the hacker in over her head, dodgy cargo, orbital assault AIs, Big Corp, - did we mention hardcore combat priests? - action scenes galore, great characters - we just need your ears.

Season one is six episodes and is the first act of a three season/act story. Season two is currently in production. Free to listen to and ad free as well.

Www.citeogpodcasts.com

Listen wherever podcasts are.

Hi everyone,

I made a post a while back about my book, The Crater. The best way to describe it is Wool meets Cyberpunk.

I have 25 audiobook keys for both US and UK that gives you the free Audible.

Only requirement is to share your goodreads/Audible review profile and either US/UK in the comments. If you prefer not to share publicly just ask me to DM you for it.

A review is not required to get the key for free, but I just want to share how it is important for debut authors to get a honest reviews so we can continue to make stories like this.

If you want to read the blurb, learn more about other books I’m writing in a connected universe, or support an indie author: free advanced copies of other works and preorders for ebooks/audiobooks (physical coming on release date) are available now on my website

Jon

Here is a sneak peak of the opening to chapter 7 of my cyberpunk webcomic.

I do not use Ai to make this, this all done digitally by me.

It just occurred to me that cyberpunk is a form of existential horror, and that it is one of the main reason it is so effective.

Most of the memorable moments and concepts are pure existential horror:

• False memories hacked into your brain like the guy in Ghost in the Shell.
• A recurrent theme in cyberpunk is that our mind can be copied digitally. Copies of you can be made and someone can own them.
• Even body augmentation and transhumanism is existential horror. Your body can be altered like any machine and you can lose yourself in the process, or some corporation can have control over parts of your body.
• Another theme is that AI will probably far outrank the human mind in terms of capabilities, and that is existential as fuck.
• In The Matrix, our entire reality turns out to be a simulation. The ultimate existential horror.

I'm surely not the first one to think that, but I thought it might be interesting enough to share. Any thoughts ?

I'm discussing cyberpunk in a geek bar, and a friend is arguing that Doom counts as cyberpunk. What do you think?

So I’ve recently read the X-Men era of krakoa and I’m lowkey obsessed with how they integrate plant tech into the stories told. Like how pollen is used around an island to detect airborne intrusions, or fungi is planted in offices as listening devices. And I remember this fascination starred in cyberpunk when the radio host (the great Mike Pondsmith himself) told stories about what biotechnica was doing.

I’ve been looking into the genre and can’t find exactly what the right term is. Biopunk is more organic flesh interface with computers, like cronenburg, and this is more…..well I don’t know? What is the term for it?

Artwork by Kyouga:

• Portfolio / VGen: https://vgen.co/kyouga

• X (Twitter): https://x.com/kyouga

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/kyo.koso

Master character and worldbuilding illustration commissioned for my indie cyberpunk audio drama anthology.

• Ink (Left): A weary, augmented salvage operator restoring and recovering messages and transmissions before they are erased for good.

• Neon (Right): A hardlight nanoswarm construct struggling to understand life outside her nuclear home.

Hand-drawn line art and screentones. No generative AI was used in any part of the project.

Broken Katana is live on Kickstarter!

What is Broken Katana?

After the moon shattered and half the moon crashed into earth, reality cracked open. Centuries later, humanity survives by trying to regrow and replenish the earth or by scavenging the ruins of civilization.

Magic and bioengineering have run amok, changing the very nature of humanity itself. In this future of waste, renewal, and hypertech, some make a living hunting monsters to keep the remnants of humanity safe.

Welcome to the world of Broken Katana.

What is in this campaign?

It’s the omnibus collection of these first three novels in my Howl series, which will include a fourth, as yet unpublished novel. You’ll be receiving all four of these books in one convenient package in paperback or hardcover.

Why should I back now?

It's the best way to catch up on the series and the only way to get the fourth novel, which completes this first arc of the story!

I hope you check out the campaign and help make this come to life! In the first half hour, we're already a third of the way towards our funding goal so I'm hoping we can hit some stretch goals to add illustrations to this beauty!

Broken Katana by edward rathke

Hi r/Cyberpunk, thanks to the mods for letting us share this.

KILL/SAVE is set in a quarantined megacity under total surveillance, where the only way out is the Metaverse. Martin, a programmer who never trusted any of it, has to go in after Teresa, the woman he loves, who disappeared into an immersion capsule and never came back. He finds her inside a brutal darknet game where the pain is real.

We were less interested in an AI that wants to destroy us than in one that genuinely wants to help, and in how far that help can go before it stops being help.

It’s live-action with real actors: Matt Testro, Stephanie Gil, Eric Goode, with Duane Henry and Brian Austin Green. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, with real physical fights rather than digital ones, because if the pain is real, the camera has to feel it too. VFX by our own small team.

Happy to answer anything about how we made it.
— Olga, producer & screenwriter

By lazaro45ive

ok so i have a budget of 100€ and need to buy a bunch of fake plants for a like cyberpunk urban overgrown aesthetics. Something like some rooms i saw in Stray game. I am noob at plants so i don't know what they are called. Help me pls

Recently came to me the information about this comic written by Antony Bourdain and decided on trying the animation. But what caught my attention is the amount of similarities in the premise of the story with the one told in Snow Crash.

From the name of the protagonist (Jiro / Hiro), to the stablishment of their characters (the super-competent protagonist, the references to the samurai archetype), to the setting of the world with a stateless society, in which private companies very much structured in the same way (the food mafia/ the pizza mafias that designed the frontiers).

I haven't seen anyone talking about it online and to be honest, I've never passed half the book (at the time the satire didn't get me, but it's a book I think about reading often), and I'm just now watching the first episode, so it's possible that the similarities are pretty much just these, but maybe someone here has read them both and could talk more about it.

Maybe they're both drinking from the same source?

Really liking the style lately, was inspired on a run by Parasite by Nine Inch Nails

I’m looking for folks that would be willing to read a cyberpunk book I wrote and provide reviews on Amazon or Apple. I’m a first time indie author, always loved cyberpunk, and thought writing was a neat hobby to pick up. Looking for honest reviews, I hope it’s good, but if it sucks that’s ok too.

The premise of the book is it’s 100 years in the future, AI stopped nuclear war and became too dependable, the lower classes have gotten augmented to keep up with humanoids, and four people in their 20’s are trying to find meaning.

I’ll also be posting in u/betareaders and am still working out the mechanics of the share.

We found a Chinese fleet · swarmcha.se

my pt clinic got a demo of one of those smart mirror rehab systems. the motion tracking actually helps when patients are doing their exercises wrong at home. the issue is everything goes to some third party cloud, the consent form is five pages of vague stuff, and nobody knows who ends up owning the movement data. feels like insurance companies will be buying gait datasets to deny claims before long.

spent last weekend messing around with mediapipe on a spare raspberry pi. it tracks posture okay for basic squats and shoulder work. not clinical grade but it can catch someone whose lumbar flexion starts collapsing at rep six instead of waiting for their next appointment.

the part that bothers me is how quickly people accept always-on cameras in their living room just because the device claims to help. same as the pet trackers. convenient until you look at what else gets logged.

curious if anyone runs local pose estimation for fitness or rehab and what hardware they're using. looking for something i could suggest to patients that doesn't need a corporate account or phone app to work.

I think The Ascent is one of the most immersive cyberpunk experiences.

Screenshots by me.

The shoulder led matrix animates through various text, and the center cross slowly color cycles.

Pastor is illustrating Vixen, one of the central figures inside THE CUBE, our cyberpunk world built around emotion‑harvesting AI.

Curious what you think.

been trying to keep freelance work contained to the hours after the kids are down. that means no waiting on rate limits or dealing with another service that wants to train on your commits. set up a small rig with a local llm for catching the obvious stuff in client code. it flags a lot of the junk that usually eats the first pass. still have to do the real fixes myself but the noise is lower. hardware is basically whatever was left over from an old workstation plus some spare ram. the output is rougher than the hosted versions but it stays private and theres no usage counter ticking in the background. curious if anyone else is doing something similar for side work or if the quality gap is too wide once you leave the big providers.