ABSTRACT

From the neo-Tokyo of Blade Runner and Gibson’s own Neuromancer to the biomechanics of HR Giger sets for Aliens, the early Eighties established a landscape that has hung over the past 20 years.1

Francesca Gavin, “Future Tense”

There is nothing worse than looking into the future, and it is the fate of all science fiction to exhibit in a theatrical manner structures which are simplified and quickly surpassed.2