Last year I wrote the script (still yet to be rewritten) of my long-planned cyberpunk manga Spanner. For the prequel, Bad Company, which is heavily influenced by John Shirley's City Come A-Walkin' and Eclipse trilogy, and by Masamune Shirow, I decided to follow the example of William Gibson and do cyberpunk in the present day. (I tried to emulate the spectacular "Rock Ending" from Shirley's Eclipse only to find BadCo wanted to end more like Yoshihisa Tagami's Grey.) My justification comes from J.G. Ballard's preface to his novel Crash: we're living in the science fiction universe already. In fact, I believe we're living in the cyberpunk universe! Gibson thinks so, too. Yes, BadCo is tech-heavy. Heavily.
Present-day cyberpunk. Because we're now living in the cyberpunk universe.
The "bad company" of the title is the world's largest military corporation, and it invades America.
(BTW, I started this thread here last year. Just so you know...)
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