Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have a Polish Science fiction writer who grew up in Germany and now lives in the South Carolina, USA. She's an award-winning internationally published author with a background in screenwriting and game writing, and has books published in both English and German. The third novel in her popular Cyberpunk series, Behind Blue Eyes, just came out last week and is called War Games. She is also one of the main editors for the 2-volume cyberpunk anthology called Neo Cyberpunk, as well as the author of the LitRPG/Cyberpunk series Cyber Squad. You can find most of her work on Amazon, but also learn more about her on her website at annamocikat.com.

Join us as we discuss everything about the Cyberpunk Genre, including:

-What is Cyberpunk?

-When and how Anna discovered Cyberpunk

-Eastern and Western Cyberpunk styles

-Anna Mocikat's writing career and inspirations

-Women in Science Fiction Publishing

-How Language affects Anna's writing

-The inspiration behind her writing and characters

-Cyberpunk videogames including Syndicate and Deus Ex

-The state and future of Cyberpunk

-How Amazon actually helps Cyberpunk writers

-And much more.

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, and video games, and more. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have Chief Editor of Neon Dystopia, Scum. Scum is also one of the hosts of the L0wL1F3 Podcast. Join us as Scum pulls back the curtain behind the legendary Cyberpunk blog Neon Dystopia, and we discuss everything Cyberpunk. We talk about the following topics:

-What is Cyberpunk? How to define the term, and why maybe we shouldn't

-When and how he discovered Cyberpunk

-How art can take on a life of its own

-Scum's favorite Cyberpunk content

-Philip K Dick's work

-When Neon Dystopia started and how Scum joined the team

-S.C. Jensen and women in the Cyberpunk genre

-The origins of the L0wl1f3 Podcast

-How Scum had a stroke and almost died

-Cyberpunk 2077

-The state of the Cyberpunk genre today

-Upload

-Snowcrash

-and much more.

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have Neo-ology Matrix expert Lazarus, who is the host of the YouTube Channel NeoMatrixology and director of Matrix University. Join us as we get into a spoiler-filled in-depth review of The Matrix Resurrections, where we discuss:

-Our experience viewing The Matrix Resurrections for the first time

-Seeing The Matrix Resurrections in the theater vs. at home online

-Lazarus' Beyond the Glitch short film

-Rewatching the movie and what we missed/caught

-Things we liked and flaws

-Our review and ranking of the movie

-Why some people disliked Matrix Resurrections

-Spoilers and their effect on the viewing experience

-Themes in The Matrix Online that were featured in Matrix Resurrections

-The future of the Matrix franchise

-Philosophy and relationships within the Matrix Resurrections

-Unanswered questions in Matrix Resurrections

-and much more.

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your operator, Alex. Today it's just me on the podcast, a short one but a good one. I'll be talking about the current state of Cyberpunk, what's come before, how it's affected the Cyberpunk genre, and what to look forward to in the future.

Join me as I talk about the state of Cyberpunk, where I discuss:

-The bad news about the recent underperforming Cyberpunk media

-The good news about the couple upcoming Cyberpunk content we have to look forward to

-the OK news about cyberpunk communities and content that is still around, isn't bad, isn't good, but is still kickin'

-What this all means for the future of Cyberpunk

-And much more

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have a complete newcomer to the Cyberpunk genre, Helena Woods, who also happens to be my wife. She is currently living abroad with me in France, where she is creating videos on YouTube about presence, joy, and culture. In addition to being a top-notch videographer, she is also a writer, photographer, artist, consultant, and content creator. For more from Helena Woods and all that she does, you can check out her website at www.helenawoods.com. You can also find her main YouTube channel here and her secondary channel here, as well as her Instagram @mshelenawoods. 

Join us as we give a spoiler-filled in-depth review of The Matrix Resurrections, where we discuss:

-themes in the Matrix

-our favorite and less favorite actors from the movie

-acting, dialogue, and performances

-action sequences

-understanding the plot

-general newbie questions about the matrix

-musical scoring of the film

-social commentary the film makes on our society

-and much more.

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have a Canadian fiction writer, science fiction enthusiast, and literary advocate Sarah Jensen. She lives in Saskatchewan with her husband, three children, and four cats. She is the author of the cyber-noir thriller series Bubbles in Space, which you can find on Amazon. 

Join us as we discuss everything about the Cyberpunk Genre, including: 

-What defines Cyberpunk 

-The Cyberpunk aesthetic  

-How Sarah discovered the genre 

-Gender and Ethnic Diversity in the Cyberpunk genre 

-The inspiration behind her writing and her characters 

-Cyberpunk videogames 

-Film Noir and its relation and inspiration to Cyberpunk 

-Cyberpunk Day 

-The Matrix Trilogy, and the Cowboy Bebop Live Action series 

-The future of the Cyberpunk genre  

For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have a published chemist, electro-optics researcher, and Cyberpunk novelist Elias Hurst who has written such books as Europa and is a founding member of Cyberpunk day. For more from Elias Hurst, be sure to check him out on Amazon. Join us as we discuss everything about the Cyberpunk Genre, from Matrix Resurrections, to Cyberpunk day, to what counts as Cyberpunk and how the genre is doing today. He also describes how he wrote his book and how he came to the genre, which was rather surprising. For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have Cyberpunk writer and novelist Matthew Goodwin, who has published such books as Into Neon, book 1 of a 5-part series called A Cyberpunk Saga. For more from Matthew Goodwin, be sure to check him out on Amazon here https://amzn.to/3Cl3hl4Join us as we discuss everything about the Cyberpunk Genre, from litRPG and NaNoWriMo, to the future of Cyberpunk and how it should be and is developing into different branches. We also discuss such media as The Matrix and Matrix 4, Upload, Loki, Disney, Blade Runner, Denis Villeneuve, Ready Player One, and much more. For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today on the show we have Matrix expert Lazarus, who is the host of the YouTube Channel NeoMatrixology and director of Matrix University. Join us as we discuss everything about The Matrix: what a yellow-pilled approach is, how Lazarus combats rumors online, the state of the Matrix fandom community, our hopes and expectations for Matrix 4, and more. For more from Cyberpunk Matrix, check out all the content we have up on the blog at https://cyberpunkmatrix.com, your one stop shop for everything cyberpunk. Learn more about how we define Cyberpunk, read the latest reviews of Cyberpunk media like movies, tv shows, music, video games, and listen to our podcasts and read our interviews. Or if you're new to the genre, check out our Cyberpunk beginner's guide, with the three eras of Cyberpunk content.

Welcome to the Cyberpunk Matrix podcast with your host, Alex. Today we have our first guest on the show, Steven Katz, a friend to the show and fellow cyberpunk enthusiast. Join us as we discuss a variety of different Cyberpunk classics. Snowcrash, Matrix 4, Ready Player One, and the cyberpunk genre in general. Steven shares with us his first introduction into the genre, what scene from the original Matrix shocked him most upon first viewing, his thoughts on the film adaptation of the book Ready Player One, and more. For more Cyberpunk content, check out our website https://cyberpunkmatrix.com/ for a definition of the term Cyberpunk, a Cyberpunk Beginner's guide, reviews for all kinds of Cyberpunk media (movies, tv shows, books, music, video games, etc.) and more!  P.S. Apologies for some audio playback issues on my part for this episode, the audio is much improved for next episode.