Client : Zorptek [A wholly owned Subsidiary of Multi-Global Hyper-Mc-Mega-Cola™Corp's Mining & Aquistions Arm]
Medium : Digital image manipulation : Original art :78cm by 117cm @300dpi
Created in Adobe Photoshop 03-05-2021 A.D. Primary designer credit for the ARAYA ( A Commercial long haul sub-light galaxy class Utility Lifter & Heavy Element Transport ) : Michael Chrisanthopoulos

Design Notes : The Astro Loco poster had to be built fast. It's 2021 and its a different kind of Space Odyssey. The design was inspired in part by ACE GARP TRUCKING CO. from the legendary british comic 2000 AD along with the film SPACE TRUCKERS (1996) zipping around in my head while flashes of RED DWARF (its cold outside theres no kind of atmosphere) bounced off images of old Skool DR. WHo with a twist of DARKSTAR whilst re-exploring the enigma that is MOJO NIXON (about one half of the Astro Loco Soundtrack...)

SF, Sci-Fi or Speculative Fiction concerns events, places, political systems and such that could conceivably be possible, the options of a million tomorrows: Science fiction deals with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, multi-verses, extraterrestrial and interdimensional life. Which of these elements Astro Loco contains remains to be viewed. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations.
Here are some of sci-fi's sub-genres….

Soft Science Fiction: Not based on the HARD sciences so much as the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. There is a big emphasis, therefore, on character interaction and emotional responses. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four might be described as soft science fiction, as it is concerned primarily with how society and interpersonal relationships are altered by an extreme political force that uses technology mercilessly; even though it is the source of many ideas and tropes commonly explored in subsequent science fiction, (even within hard science fiction), such as mind control and surveillance.

Cyberpunk: As a literary movement and a catchy slogan Cyberpunk began around 1980, despicting a high-tech, guts on the outside, grubby, data-driven mech-future. In literary terms William Gibson started it with Neuromancer, Musically do not look up the same title by Billy Idol, Instead go back to the books and try Altered Carbon (2002) even Transmetropolitan ( outstanding Graphic novel)

In cinematic terms, think of films like Hardware (no flesh shall be spared), The Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic and Blade Runner ...Newer cyberpunk media includes Blade Runner 2049 (2017), a sequel to the original 1982 film, as well as Upgrade (2018), Dredd (2012) which was not a sequel to the original 1995 movie, Alita: Battle Angel (2019) based on the 1990s Japanese manga Battle Angel Alita, the 2018 Netflix TV series Altered Carbon based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel mentioned above.

Most of these films segue nicely into: Mega-corporations, or megacorps, a term popularized by William Gibson has become widespread in the cyberpunk genre, refering to a (normally fictional) massive conglomerate/multinational (usually private), holding monopolistic or near-monopolistic control over multiple markets (thus exhibiting both a horizontal and a vertical monopoly). Megacorps are so powerful that they can ignore or are the law, they often exercise a large degree of control over their employees, taking the idea of "corporate culture" to an extreme. listed below are some of the classic Mega-Corps: