In a genre severely lacking in culinary options, ramen feels like the only food universally agreed to be tied to cyberpunk. At first, this association might appear inevitable because of the genre’s infatuation with the Far East, especially Japan. But could this association run even deeper, to the point that we can find the ingredients of cyberpunk all hidden inside one packet of instant ramen?
Carlos Esteves

Carlos Esteves
Carlos is an aspiring writer and neuroscientist, with a passion for both the science that is real and what could be real. He has been previously accused of being a mad scientist, but that claim vastly exaggerates both his competence and ethical flexibility. You can find him trying to get twitter at @CV_Esteves.
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We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Dark City.
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With a small-living future looming closer and closer, it’s kind of terrifying how, in some ways, the living standards of the cyberpunk world are actually better than ours. After all, the core appeal of the genre is “high-tech, low-life.”
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Take a seat and get ready to discover Wim Wenders’ road trip masterpiece, Until The End Of The World. Learn the strange story behind the movie, and, hopefully, I can convince you to watch this amazing movie despite its unusual premise and stranger runtime.
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Some of the Best Cyberpunk Lives in the World of Short Films — While Black Mirror might have made the idea of short and bleak sci-fi popular, the show is not the first to have come up with the idea of cyberpunk short stories. Whether you’ve just finished the show or never really liked it in the first place, I’ve got good news for you. There’s a lot more out there.
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All right, chums. Today, we’re gonna focus on a cyberpunk magazine that holds a special place in my heart, since they published my first story ever: Write Ahead: The Future Looms (shortened to WA/FL for convenience and amusement).