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Three days in April. Edward Ashton's the author. Some cyberpunk mystery with a comedic side. It has a Pulp Fiction style weirdness, but not as Rated R as far as I know.

Three Days in April was so cool. It needed work on explaining the scenery, but the character development was good, it was pretty funny, and it had a cool and mysterious plot. Overall, it's a good satirization of the stereotypical poverty and government conspiracies involving cyborgs and humans that cyberpunk is known for.

9/10. I've been trying to find otherr books by Edward Ashton, bu7t I think that's his first pone, and I think it came out last year. Well, I'm really looking forward to any future projects. I would mind a sequel, though. While it left some questions unanswered, I just don't think a sequel would be able to copy the same suspense, ame author or not.

Last night I read the first chapter to Soloris by Stanislaw Lem. YEAH!

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1699817)

To top of a fantastic day, my copy of Neuromancer arrived in the post. This will be my first venture into cyberpunk, and Gibson seemed a fitting place to start.

Was hoping to pick up a first-edition, but they command quite a price for a first-read.

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A: If you like Neuromancer, go with Three Days in April. It's on Kindle. It's cyberpunk.
B: Either that or Black Cauldron are next for me.

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman (Post 1715731)

A: If you like Neuromancer, go with Three Days in April. It's on Kindle. It's cyberpunk.
B: Either that or Black Cauldron are next for me.

Thanks for the suggestion ! My fiance recently picked up first print mass market PBs of The complete Chronicles of Prydain. It made her so happy!

A encouraging story 'The Ant & The Grasshopper'.

I might've heard of that.

I'm three chapters into Solaris, and it may be the best novel ever.

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Started a few chapters in this book. Had a lovely conversation with an Italian man on the plane ride down to PR and he suggested I pick it up.

I've just received an internet privacy milestone artifact in the post. I'd spent the last week delving into the politics of crypto-anarchism and the cypherpunks. The "crypto" does not refer to a covert political position as it does in the term, "crypto-fascism", but instead refers to politics concerned with privacy in the digital age.

Pictured below is the second EVER issue of WIRED, published in May of 1993. The masked gents holding the flag on the cover are the early cypherpunks, including the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and fathers of Bitcoin.

Their core philosophy (back in 1996!) was that government can never be trusted to protect civilian privacy on the internet and that it was up to private citizens to develop technology to protect it.

John Perry Barlow is among those featured - the man who published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996. (The archival record album of which I featured on my member journal.)

These men had incredible foresight of that which has come to pass in the 20 years since the issue's publication!

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You guys should have read Neuromancer back in the late 80s. Has been a total mind **** watching so much of that **** get real since back then!