Science fiction has long known this and has bequeathed this knowledge to digital culture: to liberate is to create new ways of being but first, one needs to describe a new place for them to be. And in what space is the (post)modern world defined? None other than the city. This too, science fiction has long known and has bequeathed to digital culture. From its genesis, science fiction has been obsessed with the city, imagining and re-imagining it in beautiful, ugly, invigorating and depressing ways.