Lars Schmeink is a science fiction researcher and media journalist. He works as project lead for the “FutureWork” subproject “Science Fiction” with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His latest publications are The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2020), Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2018), and Biopunk Dystopias (Liverpool University Press, 2016).

Lars Schmeink

Haunted by the Past: The Nostalgic Future of “Cyberpunk 2077”

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Lars Schmeink is a science fiction researcher and media journalist. He works as project lead for the “FutureWork” subproject “Science Fiction” with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His latest publications are The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2020), Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2018), and Biopunk Dystopias (Liverpool University Press, 2016).