The James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez-directed film Alita: Battle Angel is now in theaters. The trailers lay out the basics of the story: a beautiful, if strange-looking young woman with a powerful cyborg body lays waste to a slew of mechanized, mohawked villains, but still manages to find time to share a few quiet moments with the […]
As global warming and 4Chan have shown us, technology often comes with profound and unwelcome consequences for society. Cyberpunk manga, like their prose and film counterparts, take us into a future where the lines between human and robot, corporation and government, and the common good and social control are blurred or altogether absent. The heroes […]
Alex White’s debut novel, Every Mountain Made Low (out now from Solaris) is about Loxley Fiddleback, a woman whose entire life has been defined by her peculiar talent—and the crippling anxiety that comes along with it. Below, Alex joins us to talk about some of the other “misfit” characters (real and imagined) that inspired him on […]
