A tale of future crime!

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Neato@ttrpg.network · 73 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

Glorious.

Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Liam Gibson...

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

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

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 2y

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

EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y

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@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Lmao wtf is this real?

Attack0fthenerd@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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

Emperor@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 2y

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

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 2y

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.

MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y

I'm already on Tums 3.

klemptor@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y

And they do sex stuff up there as well.

Brilliant.

deezbutts@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
mfdoom@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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

TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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stefenauris@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y

So futuristic it sounds like it was written by AI lol

therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y

Fun fact, this is the original pitch for Cyberpunk 2077