The term 'legend' gets bandied about... but today's guest absolutely 100% meets the necessary criteria, having invented the word 'cyberpunk' as the title of his seminal 1980 short story!! We are honoured, delighted, starstruck and did we mention honoured to welcome Bruce Bethke to the show, who talks about being a genre pioneer along with his other work, including publishing other writers via Stupefying Stories (link below) , and tests even Matt's encyclopaedic literary knowledge to the limit!

Find Cyberpunk here: https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cpunk.htm

Stupefying Stories: https://stupefyingstories.com/

The lads are back, this time to chat about George Miller's iconic Mad Max movies!! Get ready for a guzzoline-soaked race through a wasteland that's anything but MEDIOCRE!!!!!

No daft puns this time: it's an interview with Hugh Howey, the phenomenally talented, staggeringly successful, and astoundingly likeable writer, known primarily for his smash hit Silo novels, which went from self-published short pieces to internationally acclaimed novels and more recently an Apple TV adaptation!! Can't wait for you to hear this one: we're Silover the moon about it (okay maybe one daft pun...)

https://hughhowey.com/

Is this the least cyberpunk thing we've ever covered? Probably! Does it feature a loveable robot who inarguably embodies the true spirit of badass punk?? Possibly!! Is there one incredibly problematic aspect to these movies that the lads had completely forgotten about when they decided to talk about them??? Very much so!!!

The baddies are always the best characters... but which of cyberpunk's rogues' gallery deserve the title of all-time greatest? Tune in to hear the lads joined by brilliant writer Tim Standish, author of The Sterling Directive, as they attempt to answer this very question...

Where to find more about Tim:

Website: https://timstandish.co.uk/who-is-tim-standish/

Twitter: @TimStandishUK

In today's episode, Matt and Jon are chatting about Harlan Ellison's massively influential 1967 short story, as well as its 1995 video game adaptation! In a typically rambling chat, they're also debating the most evil AI of all time, as well as the art of the perfect movie trailer...

Today's topic is another gem of a cyberpunk movie, Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, and today's guest is a gem of a cyberpunk writer, the prolific Phil Stitelmann! Tune in for a fascinating chat with a top creator, as well as Jon attempting a South African accent so bad that it may constitute a war crime.

Phil's debut novella and other upcoming books and articles can be hunted down at the following co-ordinates...

Website: https://digital-gods-and-fallen-angels.com/

Patreon: patreon.com/c/PhilStitelmann/home

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilStitelmann

Instagram: @phil_stitelmann

Blog: https://medium.com/@Phil-Stitelmann

If the lads had been able to think of a suitable pun, this podcast probably would have been named after Alien instead of Ghost In The Shell; that's how much they love this enduring, legendary, and admittedly patchy franchise. So it was with some trepidation that they ventured into Noah Hawley's TV show... tune in to find out what they made of it, and which character/eyeball stole the show!!

(Podmetheus? You Have My Sympodthies? Weyland You-hear-me?)