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Anyone interested in the roots of cyberpunk might also be interested in John Brunner's 1968 novel *Stand On Zanzibar*.

cough... My mother may have something to say about that.

Not his 1973 novel "The Shockwave Rider"?

The Shockwave Rider should definitely be considered something like "proto Cyberpunk" IMO. And regardless of that, I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

I just picked up a copy of Stand on Zanzibar, looking forward to getting into that soon.

The film "Heavy Metal" from 1981 also had some of this aesthetic. So did the magazine counterpart (still in print!)

You know, I feel silly admitting this, but I still haven't ever watched "Heavy Metal". Now I'm thinking I should make that my top TODO item after work tonight. That's been on "the list" for, like, forever.

The Josan Gonzalez “Deathburger” images on the article could be lifted directly the Heavy Metal movie. And Gonzalez did artwork for the Heavy Metal magazine.

When Musk launched a Tesla into space, there was a lot of speculation that he was inspired by the opening scene in the Heavy Metal film [0] [1].

This film was Ivan Reitman before he did Ghostbusters and same year he did Stripes, and became really famous. A film like this could never be made today; there are way too many unpolitically correct scenes. Just don't bother with "Heavy Metal 2000", the 2nd film that came out 20 years later -- it was not good at all and had no involvement from the original creators as I understand.

[0] https://www.scalemodelnews.com/2018/02/did-heavy-metal-inspi...

[1] https://bleedingcool.com/movies/spacex-elon-musk-use-falcon-...

More great art from Josan Gonzalez: https://www.heavymetal.com/tag/josan-gonzalez/

There's a striking similarity between Josan Gonzalez's work and that of Geof Darrow[1] who was famous for his 1990'ish collaboration with Frank Miller on Hard Boiled[2].

Some samples of Darrow's work: [3] - [8]

Gonzalez also seems to have a bit of a Moebius vibe.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geof_Darrow

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled_(comics)

[3] - https://i.redd.it/wfb1561hqbe01.jpg

[4] - https://i.pinimg.com/736x/75/71/f7/7571f7929dfd8f3cef2e32af2...

[5] - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/3e/15/683e154af1fb4fbc267c...

[6] - https://d2lzb5v10mb0lj.cloudfront.net/common/salestools/prev...

[7] - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/48/de/d948de58e6cd3ccc01cc...

[8] - https://i.pinimg.com/474x/2a/08/11/2a081125fc927a628f1dfb2b1...

Thanks for this. I did not know about Geof Darrow.

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