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Sadly, Singularity is a typical game of this day and age.  From a strictly technical standpoint, it's a perfectly serviceable first-person shooter in the mode of Half-Life 2.  In terms of story, art design, and gameplay elements, it bears the marks of editorial autocracy.The premise is certainly innocuous enough.  Around the late 1940s, Soviet miners working on Katorga-12, an island off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula discover E99, a weird transuranic element with temporal properties.  An…See More

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtmlWe all know William Gibson as one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk and for his pioneering work in The Difference Engine, but did you know he also wrote dieselpunk? Only not really?Let me explain.The above is a link to a short story Gibson wrote in the late 1980s (later republished in his 1989 anthology Burning Chrome). The plot…See More