Tag: cyberpunk
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The Artifact
Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom—and warfare. Ray wondered if that’s all the artifact was—a little statue to be placed on a bookshelf in a fancy home office. Code drops in the Net often took the shape of such objects, but when touched, they were supposed to turn into something else, something virtual yet…
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House of Nepenthe: Draft 1 Complete
Prompt: an exhausted Hispanic science fiction writer vaguely resembling literary heartthrob Daniel Verastiqui at his desk after he just finished the first draft of his new book titled House of Nepenthe. If you’re into numbers, the draft clocks in at 170,000+ words and 400+ pages. It took more than two years to complete, which is…
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Jester West
In a dorm room on the thirteenth floor of Jester West, a homemade immersion rig was whirring in the relative quiet. To his roommates, X appeared to be resting on his bed, reclined as if sleeping. Under that rig, behind those eyes, an entire world was spinning just for him. “Boy meets girl. Boy and…