So I'll be interviewing Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian at Templecon in Rhode Island next month. http://www.templecon.org/14/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id... I'm pretty excited about this. I got into Cyberpunk when I was 14. I'd already played a lot of different RPGs by that point in my life, but other than the equally immortal Paranoia, none of them had had the same dark edge as Cyberpunk. Nor had they dealt directly with serious real-world issues. I suspect there might be a few people around here who also cut their serious-RPG teeth on Cyberpunk. So what do you guys think I should ask him? For my part, I've always been interested in the way transhuman SF evolved from cyberpunk. I usually think of Bruce Sterling's _Schismatrix_ as the keystone of this evolution. Cyberpunk feels in many ways like a very retro genre now, but I feel like a lot of what it has to say -- about our relationship with technology, about corporate power, and about changes in social mores -- is still pretty relevant.