So You Want To/Write a Cyber Punk Story: Difference between revisions

* Hand-to-hand combat, and use of simulations of the weapons specified above, though you can get away without them.

* Explosions that look exactly like what they would look like in reality. If the story explicitly calls for a gasoline explosion, make it look like a gasoline explosion. If the story explicitly calls for a nuclear explosion on the surface or an air-burst, then make it look like whatever it would look like in reality. If the story calls for an explosion contained undersea, it should have the water above the epicenter spray upward in an almost flat cone, followed by the water turning a whiter shade in a rapidly expanding circle the center of which is always the epicenter. Otherwise, conventional explosions need to look like a dull red flash that leaves a grey smoke cloud behind.

* Vehicular misadventures that go over and look like exactly what they would be like in reality. Vehicles rarely explode when they wreck. Like in any neo-noir, there might be a vehicular misadventure, such as a high-speed chase or crashing through barricades.