{"id":497681,"date":"2025-10-15T14:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/exploring-the-human-side-of-cyberpunk-adam-bassett\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:35:02","slug":"exploring-the-human-side-of-cyberpunk-adam-bassett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/exploring-the-human-side-of-cyberpunk-adam-bassett\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Human Side of Cyberpunk | Adam Bassett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Storyline Sessions, author and illustrator Adam Basset talks about his short story collection Digital Extremities, worldbuilding, the art of making maps and much more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Find Adam here &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adamcbassett.com\/\">https:\/\/www.adamcbassett.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Storyline Sessions on other streaming platforms &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/taplink.cc\/storyline.sessions\">https:\/\/taplink.cc\/storyline.sessions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Support Storyline Sessions on Ko-Fi &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/Ko-fi.com\/storylinesessions\">Ko-fi.com\/storylinesessions<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/Riverside.fm\">Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko\">https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Start &amp; disclaimer<\/p>\n<p>01:03 &#8211; Conversation start<\/p>\n<p>01:42 &#8211; Reacting to readers&#8217; comments<\/p>\n<p>03:35 &#8211; Short vs long form writing<\/p>\n<p>10:35 &#8211; Connected world building through separate stories<\/p>\n<p>12:20 &#8211; Adam&#8217;s writing process<\/p>\n<p>14:56 &#8211; Black Mirror Comparison and character-focused Sci-Fi<\/p>\n<p>18:25 &#8211; The future is now &#8211; the cyberpunk of today<\/p>\n<p>21:57 &#8211; Choosing story locations<\/p>\n<p>25:30 &#8211; How do you know when you&#8217;re ready to publish?<\/p>\n<p>29:40 &#8211; Working with beta readers and editors<\/p>\n<p>31:27 &#8211; Campfire and getting into fantasy<\/p>\n<p>36:20 &#8211; Making maps, the science behind it and current trends<\/p>\n<p>47:05 &#8211; Book cover design<\/p>\n<p>49:36 &#8211; Best medium for Digital Extremities to be adapted<\/p>\n<p>51:35 &#8211; Writing for games<\/p>\n<p>54:00 &#8211; Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Storyline Sessions, author and illustrator Adam Basset talks about his short story collection Digital Extremities, worldbuilding, the art of making maps and much more. Find Adam here &#8211; https:\/\/www.adamcbassett.com\/ Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/ Listen to Storyline Sessions on other streaming platforms &#8211; https:\/\/taplink.cc\/storyline.sessions Support Storyline Sessions on&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}