Cyberpunk 2077

Stephanie Farnsworth’s Cyberpunk 2077: Cyborg Bodies, Community, and Culture advances a critical, interdisciplinary exegesis of CD Projekt Red’s landmark title. Drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks to interrogate the video game’s narrative, ludic, and cultural architectures afresh, the study remains accessible to fans while providing scholars with a robust and generative foundation for critical inquiry. * Steven Kielich, University of Rochester, USA *

Stephanie Farnsworth is Lecturer at the University of Sunderland, UK, and the editor for the upcoming edited collection, Games That Haunt Us (Bloomsbury, 2026). She is founder, and a Chair, of MultiPlay, an international community of games scholars and researchers that hosts 4-5 online conferences each year. MultiPlay also has a Discord server of nearly 300 members and a large Twitter following. Stephanie’s research focuses upon “mutant theory,” expanding upon monster theory and examining the relationship audiences have to biotechnology. She writes about body horror, bodily transformations, and biofuturism.