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Title: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook

Creator: St. Jude, R. U. Sirius, Bart Nagel

Posting Date: April 14, 2013 [EBook #929] Release Date: June, 1997 First Posted: June 11, 1997

Dialect: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REAL CYBERPUNK FAKEBOOK **

The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude, R.U. Sirius and Bart Nagel (C)1995 Ken Goffman and Jude Milhon

This document contains the initial three and half sections.

From Michael

>>I changed a couple of spaces all over to improve it look onscreen, >>let me know whether you have any recommendations, adjustments, augmentations, and so forth.

From Jude

orright, michael: I played with the designing. it's HELL to influence things to look great in ASCII, yet it looks bettah.

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approve, michael, remain back… here it comes… .

i'm sending cybpunk fakebook as a MIME-encoded connection AND a glue in…

watch out… . it's appallingly senseless… .

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Dear Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg:

This content comes over somewhat odd in ASCII. Like MONDO2000—the zine we made scandalous—this book depends on its wacked format and peculiar outlines for a lot of its importance, not to state enchant.

Also, it was hard to figure what ought to be viewed as the primary section, for evident reasons. I think the main part truly incorporates Section II, however don't bother. Here it is, the start of…

****************************************************** ***** THE ***** REAL ***** CYBERPUNK ***** FAKEBOOK ***** By St. Jude, R.U.Sirius, and Bart Nagel ***** ******************************************************

Commitment: For every one of our folks and sweethearts and housemates and kids and companions, for the Cypherpunks, for Kevin Crow, Nesta Stubbs, The Omega, Phiber, and programmers all over.

======================================================== | INTRODUCTION to The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook | by Bruce Sterling, | A Renowned Cyberpunk Writer |
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I like this book so much that I'm considering changing my name to St.Erling. You couldn't request preferable advisers for faking cyberpunk over these two completely refined Bay Area fraudsters. These two characters are such consummate boho tricksters that they make Aleister Crowley look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

I don't have faith in keen medications, and I've never had faith in brilliant medications, however I do trust the accompanying. It's truly helpful to society to have some little, contained division of foolhardy simpletons who will devour untested and obscure gadgets and substances. Without a doubt, the majority of them will have their hearts detonate or break out into incredible purple draining thalidomide warts. Be that as it may, who knows, perhaps some time or another one of these jaspers will eat modest bunches of psychoactive poo out of some radical drug store and he or she will all of a sudden figure out how to peruse Japanese in the first in six days. That is not in the slightest degree likely, yet it could happen—allow me the likelihood.

The main disadvantage to this decentralized, libertarian, free-showcase administration of biomedical research is that you must be mercilessly arranged to forfeit certain individuals—simply compose them off, essentially, similar to a cageful of control hamsters down at the NIMH. Furthermore, on the off chance that I at any point met a man exceptionally suited to this specific forefront part throughout everyday life, it is R.U. Sirius. R. U. Sirius fundamentally looks like Gomez Addams in a purple fedora with an Andy Warhol identification stuck to the overflow. The minute I met R.U., I felt a solid need to essence him and analyze his viscera. I'm certain there are numerous other independent biomedical specialists who will feel a similar scholarly motivation. Read this book and you'll understand.

At that point there's this holy person individual. Never attract to an inside straight. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Furthermore, never eat a sack of ephedrine and a pumpkin pie ("the *whip* of vegetables!") from a California blonde who doesn't have a genuine name. This female personage is so dreadfully cagey that even her primary crush has a great time cryptographically puzzling the NSA. On the off chance that Pat Buchanan ever gets his not really mystery wish and sets up a local American gulag for counterculture thought-crooks, the Judester's going to be path, *way* up on the rundown—perhaps number two, directly after Bob Dobbs. Her trial's probably going to demonstrate rather intriguing, in any case, as she just carries out "wrongdoings" in territories of social action that haven't been characterized yet, substantially less effectively criminalized. A genuine legitimate investigation of this current lady's range of exercises would resemble a CAT-output of the American oblivious.

There's additionally Bart Nagel, who is excessively decent a person, making it impossible to be in the organization of these individuals.

Nearly everything in this swell book is totally valid. Aside from every little thing about me. Furthermore, my nearest co-schemers. We real cyberpunks—by this I mean *science fiction writers*, damn it, the general population for whom the c-word was developed, the general population who were professionally relatively revolutionary and were cyberpunks *twelve years ago*—we never scoff and we never dress like, God deny, Tom Wolfe. We simply snicker at wrong circumstances (like while affirming in Congress) and we dress and act simply like mechanical outline teachers.

I trust this concise introduction clears up any perplexity. In the event that you have any inconvenience whatsoever with this book, take full favorable position of your online d00dship and send email. Try not to be hesitant to ask "idiotic" inquiries—that is the thing that the Internet is for! Ask decent, enormous, expansive, open-finished inquiries. Stuff as "I'm doing a research paper so please educate me all that you know regarding the internet" or "I'm cyberpunk fan from Bulgaria and Enlgish not too great, but rather please say progressively what is in regards to Virtual Reality?"

Simply don't send the email to me, obviously. Send email to them. After this book, they merit it! I feel beyond any doubt that you'll find incite solutions that will astonish you.


======================================================== | The | Authors | Explain: | A Technical Guide To This Technical Guide | ========================================================

WORDS IN BOLDFACE (encased in twofold <<angle braces>> for the ASCII rendition)

These are terms that are characterized in *Building Your Cyber Word Power*. Check there for anything that puzzles you.

Infrequently there's a twofold anglebrace-encased term in the content that alludes to a section subheading, and after that you should rehearse your <<haqr smarts>> with a specific end goal to discover it. When in doubt, you could ask Bruce Sterling at his mystery email address—bruces@well.com. He will know.

THE SHURIKEN AWARDS

We may in some cases surrender to the impulse to rate things the way nasty faultfinders do, by granting stars. In any case, we will grant them as *shuriken*, a digital kinda star:

^

< X > < X > < X >

v

A shuriken is a tossing star—a gleaming steel, sharp-edged, sharp-pointed weapon from Japan (which is cyberpunk's unique home in certain foggy urban legends). The shuriken itself as an attack weapon would rate one-half shuriken on a size of four. A nuclear bomb would rate five shuriken. You get the thought.

Incidentally we may add Propeller Beanies to the Shuriken:

<<<o>>>

__|__

/_____\/_____\/_____\

This demonstrates nerdly enthusiasm well beyond a cyberpunk rating. Propeller head is an old term for <<nerd>>. The genuine name for that key on the Macintosh isn't COMMAND, yet PROPELLER, and this is the reason.

_________________/| |\ | || |/O || | ( C O/\O || | \__/O || |/\_________________/\| \/____________________\/

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Substance CONTENTS

Substance CONTENTS

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************************************************** SECTION I: CYBERPUNK… WHY?? Affirm—HOW??? *** ****************************************************** Chapter 1/CYBERPUNK: A CHALLENGING POSTMODERN LIFESTYLE! /Why Bother? Enormous Wins! (furthermore, Unexpected Smallstuff)/

Section 2/ACHIEVING CYBERPUNK/Being It or Faking It/

Section 3/A STYLE GUIDE TO THE CYBERTYPES/Recognizing Them and Fitting In/

****************************************************** ***** SECTION II: CYBERPUNK… KNOWING ABOUT IT! ***** ******************************************************

Section 4/BUILDING YOUR CYBER WORD POWER

+ A Dictionary of Terminally Hip Jargon and Useful

Articulations

+ A Cyberpunk Phrasebook, with Hip Conversational

Ploys for Winning Without a Clue

Section 5/CHEATCARDS FOR BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ/But Didn't/

Section 6/CHEATCARDS FOR MOVIES/TV YOU DIDN'T SEE/But Should Know About/

Section 7/ONLINE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT/Even in the event that You Never Go Online/

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