neil-gaiman:

Cybermen, by Paul Hanley.

My favourites are still the first two models, from Tenth Planet and Moonbase…

The original Cybermen really are the most haunting and disturbing ones. Mindless Ones turned me on to this:

These weren’t the Ultron-lite storm troopers of Nu-Who, or even the blank robo-nazi drones of the Tom Baker era, with their dull pseudo-fascist overtones. Their home, Mondas, the tenth planet, was Earth’s upside down twin. The Cybermen were once our solar brothers, apparently, but ended up sealing themselves inside a machine world in an effort to escape death and pain… …. These are Cybermen who offer crackling, digital prayers to the void. To whom the word “delete” represents an anti-spiritual ideal, and find themselves plagued by dead subroutines that still mourn the organic.