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[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've read this[...]book[...]this year.

Glorious.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72 6 points 9 months ago

He has a very specific set of abilities, obtained over the course of an enduring professional life...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

I've read some stories with questionable world building, but this is something else.

[–] EndOfLine 32 points 9 months ago

The month is Compuary, which is a new cyber-month they added just for doing hacker stuff.

A what now? To do what again?

And they do sex stuff up there as well.

Reeeeealy?

There's Baltimore Airport, lab-grown to be a swimsuit model but programmed to kill.

Obviously a complex character with depth.

There's Crusty Silverware...

Say no more ... please.

Infiltrate the dome and take out Harvard Pubence, the president of cops.

You son of a bitch, I'm in!

Tonight, Pubence is guest of honor at the 9th annual Rich Perverts' Ball.

OMG! Stop I already said I was in!

My team jacked up on Tums 2

Seriously, I need to read this book or my life may never feel complete!

[–] kat_angstrom 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Attack0fthenerd 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] EndOfLine 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nooooo! 😭 I so badly wanted this to be real. I had even looked it up by ISBN to try and order it. The ISBN is for a book titled Brute Orbit, if anybody is curious.

[–] tpyo 4 points 9 months ago

It reminded me of a strange book I read when I was young, an 80s sci-fi I think was called "the wizard of sunset strip"

I'd have absolutely believed this could have been a book by them

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/502308.The_Wizard_of_Sunset_Strip

When mutilated bodies begin turning up in Hollywood and the police are baffled, the young wizard Wydrune and his band--a beautiful cat burglar, a Cockney punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin, and Camelot's last survivor--take the case

[–] Jarix 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No but William Gibson does have a bunch of near future novels that i recommend

I think with ChatGPT and Tinder getting in bed together recently as well as advertisers creating their own AI influencers, the book Idoru is probably a pretty decent read for anyone who wants to give him a try

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

If I was any more in, I'd be out the other side.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm so in. Where do I sign up. No, for real though, what is the name of this book. I must own a copy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I'm already on Tums 3.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

And they do sex stuff up there as well.

Brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] mfdoom 3 points 9 months ago

Couldn't help but read that in Garth Merenghi's voice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've read it, only thing I remember is the first chapter pizza delivery, gonna have to dig it out now and refresh myself of the rest of the story.

[–] PriorityMotif 2 points 9 months ago

This sounds like the parker novels, but in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Fun fact, this is the original pitch for Cyberpunk 2077

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So futuristic it sounds like it was written by AI lol