
Academic Researcher
Dr. Adam Edwards
Cyberpunk and Science Fiction specialist, interested in alternative media, video games and tabletop narratives. Occasionally takes bird photos.
Books
Richard Morgan, in Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture; Anna McFarlane, Graham J. Murphy, and Lars Schmeink (eds). New York, Routledge, 2022.
Cyberpunk Resleeved: How Netflix’s Altered Carbon Reformats its Cyberpunk Ancestry, in Sex, Death and Resurrection in “Altered Carbon; Aldona Kobus and Lukasz Muniowski (eds). North Carolina, McFarland & Company Inc, 2020.
Papers
"This is not how biology is supposed to function": Philosophies of the Post-Necron in Nate Crowley's Twice-Dead King books, [Warhammer Conference 2025]()
Ancient Dignity: Abstraction, Irreverence and the Legacy of the Launch Rules of Age of Sigmar, Games Workshop Research Day 2025
Silica Animus, Silica Animosity: How Artificial Intelligence in Warhammer 40,000 complicates the boundaries of the body, the soul, and the monstrous - Conference Paper, Warhammer Conference, 2024
Attitude is Everything: The Importance of Cyberpunk to Contemporary Society - Doctoral Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2023
So, you wanna be a Cyberpunk? How Tabletop RPGs Provoke Storytelling in Their Players - Blended Online Paper, CyberPunk Culture Conference 2020
Sex in the Virtual: Fear, Queer, and Persevere(ance) - Co-written with Grace Feehan, Oral Paper, PLAYPAUSE SYMPOSIUM 2019: Immersion | Dissonance
The ‘Essence’ of the Machine: The Importance of Narrative and Procedural Conflict in the Creation of a ‘Persuasive Game - Oral Paper, PLAYPAUSE SYMPOSIUM 2018: Immersion
Teaching
Games Playing Roles, Undergraduate Module Convenor, University of Liverpool (2023/2024)
Bodies in Space and Fictions of Technology, Postgraduate Lecturer, University of Liverpool (2023/2024)
Game Design Independent Project, Undergraduate Supervisor, University of Liverpool (2023/2024)
GCSE English Literature - Tutor, The Brilliant Club (2021)
Plays and Performance (Lv. 1), University of Birmingham (2019)



