Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Modernity & Building Believable Futures with award-winning author T. R. Napper. During the episode, Tim unpacks the complexities of modernity, exploring what modernity is, its relationships with hardboiled fiction and cyberpunk, confronting modernity in real life, relevancy and genre expectations, worldbuilding and crafting believable futures, thematic resonance, historical context fact vs. fiction and more.
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SFF Addicts Ep. 122: T. R. Napper talks The Escher Man, Cyberpunk, Memory & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author T. R. Napper about his new novel The Escher Man, living abroad and cultural immersion, balancing parenting and writing, cyberpunk and Australia, memory and technology, the creative process and philosophy, writing in the Aliens universe, trunked novels, unreliable narrators and much more.
Getting Started in the Cyberpunk Genre: Top Books to Read
[This is an updated version of a script for one of my YouTube videos, which can be found here.] The cyberpunk genre is one of my favorite genres, not only in books but also in visual media. I love the aesthetic you typically see within this genre in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Deus Ex. […]
Interview with TR Napper
I’ve long been a fan of the cyberpunk genre and during the course of my recent Aussie and New Zealand author showcase I was lucky enough to make contact the multi-award winning Aussie author TR Napper (aka Tim). Author of 36 Streets, Neon Leviathan, Bishop and of course the newly released Ghost of The Neon […]
Cover Reveal: Falling Into Oblivion (Tendrils of Chrome #1) by Aaron M. Payne
I am thrilled to be hosting this cover reveal for Aaron M. Payne’s debut novel, Falling Into Oblivion. I think you’ll agree that it’s an awesome cover that just yells cyberpunk! Here’s the full artwork and everything you need to know about the cover, book blurb, author, and ARC sign ups… Cover & Project Details: […]
Cover Reveal: Digital Extremities by Adam Bassett
See the cover art and sign up for an ARC of a new sci-fi collection, Digital Extremities.
Australian & New Zealand Author Showcase No 8 – TR Napper
G’day / Kia Ora. Today I have the honour of hosting the eighth author showcases focusing on the awesome talent originating from Australia and New Zealand. The idea came to me whilst seeing so many of the book community gathering at recent conventions in the US and UK. And once my FOMO had subsided, I […]
Author Chat: Antonia Rachel Ward (DreamScape)
Antonia Rachel Ward is an author of horror and speculative fiction based in Cambridgeshire, UK. As well as a considerable body of short story work and poetry, she has published two novellas, Marionette and Attack of the Killer Tumbleweeds, and her first novel, DreamScape, is released on 24th October. You can find my 9.5/10 review […]
Review: DreamScape by Antonia Rachel Ward
Synopsis If you fall deep enough down the rabbit hole, how will you even know when you’ve made it out? When teenage runaway Wren Silver’s little sister gets lost in the DreamScape, a virtual world so addictive its use has been outlawed, the prognosis is bad. Nobody who’s fallen into a coma while using the […]
TBRCon2023 Highlight: What Even is Cyberpunk in 2023? (Panel)
NOTE: This is the final TBRCon2023 panel, so there won’t be any more Friday panel highlights. Thank you for listening and supporting the convention.
Every week, we’ve highlighted a panel from TBRCon2023, looking back on the amazing variety of panels that we had the honor of hosting.
For this final week, join moderator/author Cody Sisco and authors T. R. Napper, Olivia Chadha, Matthew FitzSimmons, Jeremy Szal and Elly Bangs for a TBRCon2023 panel on “What Even is Cyberpunk in 2023?”
Review: Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence
This electrifying novel set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 follows a group of strangers as they discover that the dangers of Night City are all too real. In neon-drenched Night City, a ragtag group of strangers have just pulled off a daring heist on a Militech convoy transporting a mysterious container. What do each […]
Review: The Monsters We Feed (#1) by Thomas Howard Riley
Think of something that truly threatens the aspect of your soul. An absence. Something that should make you feel and care for, but something that pulls at the tug of your moral conscience. Why are humans capable of committing the most evil and heinous crimes? Because without empathy, and apathy combined, then there is no shame. No regret. The world of Kolcha, the very city where Jathan lives proves that there is an undercurrent of shame and turmoil and that not everything is as it seems. You can’t take anything for granted in this city.