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2/28/2017

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Valandra 2 Cover reveal!

2/28/2017

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2017 - 2018 Writing Schedule (Tristan Vick)

2/14/2017

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These are the titles I plan to write and release this year and beyond.
  1. Valandra: The Winds of Time Cycle / Book 1 (March 2017)
  2. Valandra: The Dragon Blade Cycle / Book 2 (April 2017)
  3. Valandra: Goddess of War Cycle / Book 3 (May 2017

    (All subsequent titles are on a tentative release schedule)
  4. Valandra: A Song of Fire and Steel: The Great War / Book 1 (September 2018)
  5. Valandra: An Oath of Blood: The Great War / Book 2 (October 2018)
  6. Valandra: The Reaper and the King: The Great War / Book 3 (November 2018)

    (All subsequent titles are on a tentative release schedule)
  7. Valandra: The Breath of Empyrean (The Dragon Age Book 1)
  8. Valandra: The Twelve Swords (The Dragon Age Book 2)
  9. Valandra: The Eye of Halcion (The Dragon Age Book 3)

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  10. Robotica : A Glitch in the Electrical Dream (November 2017)
  11. Exoverse : Invasion of the Draugr (December 2017)
  12. BITTEN 4 : Ancient of Dread Days (March 2018)
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Cyperpunk: Ghost in the Shell vs. Neuromancer

2/7/2017

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It's interesting to me that so many claim Masumune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell (1989) was influenced by William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984).

I've never found any evidence for this. Even Takayuki Tatsumi, one of Japan's leading cultural critics, didn't find any cross-cultural influence between the two in his academic study on cyberpunk cross-cultural influences in his book Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Post-Contemporary Interventions) [2006].

It's just something people like to say, I suppose. Probably because both authors are talking about similar things and have familiar content but, as seems to be the case, most are likely unaware that Gibson and Shirow began publishing their popular works at approximately the same time.

They both started publishing cyberpunk stories in late 1982 and early 1983 respectively. Gibson published Burning Chrome in 82 and Neuromancer in 84.

Masamune already had Black Magic, 83, Appleseed 85, and Dominion, 85-86 — all cyberpunk manga under his belt. Also, to put this into perspective, it took 2 whole years for translators to translate Neuromancer into Japanese, releasing 1986.


Masamune Shirow's first work, Black Magic M66, 1983, was about an A.I. and an android. Does that mean when Gibson later wrote about A.I.s he was influenced by Shirow?

I don't know. I'm inclined to think not. In all probability, they most likely arrived at their ideas independently of one another and were writing about similar technology that just hadn't been defined as a genre yet.


We call it *cyberpunk* today, but regardless of who influenced who, both men remain true visionaries.
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