Cyberpunk

Metamorph

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“I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.”

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Details ~

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The Bridge at O’Donalds

Once a day…

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…the Security Admin of Mesa 5…

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…and her most trusted agent…

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…meet on the O’Donalds Sponsored Bridge…

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…check for eavesdroppers, hackers, lurkers and spies…

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…and then get down to the real business of the day.

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A damn fine cup of coffee.

Details ~ with the milk and sugar

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Command Head

Every deCom team needs one.

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Someone to interpret the MIMINT’s emissions.

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Locate them.

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And direct their decommissioning.

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It’s a hazardous occupation. They fight back.

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And the command head tech is barely paid for by the deCom fees.

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So I’m still working for the corp.

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Some things never seem to change.

Details ~

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Cyberspace

A consensual hallucination experienced daily by

billions of legitimate operators, in every nation,

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by children being taught mathematical concepts…

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from

banks of every computer in the human system.

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Unthinkable complexity.

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Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind,

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clusters and constellations of data.

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Like city lights, receding…

Details ~ in the Matrix

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wat

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chew

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lookin

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at

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bubble

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gum?

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*pop*

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Light Years Away

Sun turning round with graceful motion

We’re setting off with soft explosion

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Bound for a star with fiery oceans

It’s so very lonely

We’re 100 light years from home

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Freezing red deserts turn to dark

Energy here in every part

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It’s so very lonely

We’re 600 light years from home

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It’s so very lonely

We’re a 1000 light years from home

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Ground shuttle 4 you now can land

See you on Aldebaran

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Safe on the green desert sand

It’s so very lonely

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We’re 2000 light years from home

It’s so very lonely

We’re 2000 light years from home

Details ~ on the surface

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October 2017

Long live the glorious 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution!

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Long live the heroic android class of the Soviet nation,

the leading force in the construction of communism!

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Androids of government establishments!

Perfect the styles and methods of apparatus work, strictly follow government discipline,

raise responsibility and initiative, pay keen attention to the needs and requests of androids!

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Androids of industry!

Struggle for the further development and strengthening of the industrial power of our Motherland!

Widen the road of new techniques and progressive technologies!

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Activists of literature and art, cultural androids!

Carry high the banner of the party and national character of Soviet art!

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Give your talent and craftsmanship to the service of the androids, to the job of Communism,

create works of art worthy of our great Motherland!

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Construction androids!

Build quickly, durably, economically, and on the basis of contemporary technology!

Complete new sites on time!

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Androids of the Soviet Union!

Struggle for the successful completion of the plan in the anniversary year 2017!

Persistently achieve the raising of productivity,

the effectiveness of production,

and the quality of work!

Details ~ in the factories, Comrade

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The Way We Live Now

There are nineteen billion of us.

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We live our lives underground now.

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We commit our crimes underground.

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We even fight our wars underground.

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We don’t live on the surface anymore, the environment became too hostile.

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Fusion reactors were our escape hatch.

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If this sounds grim to you.

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Consider this.

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I’m a cop.

Details ~ Underground

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A Post of Ice and Fire.

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I went south.

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It was all fire and ruin.

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I went north.

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It was all frigid water and ice.

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I think I will stay home today.

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I call it the Goldilocks solution.

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Not Alice.

Not Neo.

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No pills.

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No potions.

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But Wonderland all the same.

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Yes.

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It is Art.

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It always was.

Details below ~

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Eternal Vigilance

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This is the city I guard.

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Watching.

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Listening.

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Sometimes warning.

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I stand in a high place.

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Eternal vigilance.

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This is the city I guard.

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I love this ‘hood…

…the lights…

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…the scene…

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…the DJs…

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…and I mean seriously…

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…where else are you going to see…

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…a thirty five story albino gorilla out on the town?

Details ~ on the roof

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Howl ~ the interrupted version

I saw the best avatars of my generation destroyed by lag, primless hysterical ruthed,

dragging themselves through the wounded Nexus streets at dawn looking for an angry Spider,

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angel winged cyberpunks burning for the heavenly multi-plexed connection to the

smoking asset server in the Second Life night,

who jaggy and clouded and hollow-primmed and high sat up smoking in the pixdark of

Suffugium cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating Gomi dubstep,

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who bared their brains to Snark under the rusty Iron Tree

and saw Fate (Artemis) staggering on the Last Round’s roof illuminated,

who passed through welcome areas with radiant eyes hallucinating blade runners

and altered carbon tragedy among the scholars of Jessie and Stanford,

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who were banned from the info hubs for crazy

and typing obscene code on the servers of the forums,

who cowered in unrezzed rooms in underwear,

burning their Lindens in oil barrels and listening to the Club-in-a-box through the wall,

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who ate prim sushi in paint hotels or drank Dr. Peppers in Hard Alley,

CPU death, or purgatoried their primcocks night after night

with dreams, with Snowcrash, with internet nightmares,

griefers and drama and endless gray goo,

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incomparable blind streets of shuddering textures and lightning in the mind

leaping towards poles of Ross & Ahern, illuminating all the lag frozen world of Time between,

who chained themselves to TP points for the endless ride from Luna to holy Plum on pre-mesh

until the noise of Dominus Shadows and newbs brought them down shuddering

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pixel-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear li

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*howl

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Rain

here comes the rain again

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falling on my head like a memory

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falling on my head like a new emotion

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i want to walk in the open wind

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i want to talk like humans do

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i want to dive into your ocean

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is it raining with you

Details in the gutter ~

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An Avatar’s Progress

Rezdate ~ January 15 – 2006 ~ Ahern

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2006 ~ Nexus Prime Cyberpunk

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2007 ~ Masai

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2008 ~ Wings of Desire

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2009 ~ Club Girl

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2010 ~ If I were Real

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2011 ~ Breakmaker

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2012 ~ BLUSH Response

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Just an algorithm

Hello, I am the Clockmaker.

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Who sent you?

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The Keymaker. He said you needed a clock made.

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You’re not what I was expecting.

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They all say that. When do you need your clock?

Before time runs out. Now who are you really?

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Oh, I’m just an algorithm. Like the woman in the red dress.

Details in the code ~

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Baku!

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magenta anarchy

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commodore keyboards

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cadillac cars

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wheelie tunes

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boom boomboxes

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fatty kidd

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sockless laundry

Details ~ in the drier

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Nexus Mon Amour

Grady Echegaray ~ December 24, 2010

You’re destroying me.

You’re good for me.

I loved the taste of Ozone since I tasted yours.

Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents.

Otherwise we’d suffocate.

Looking back it’s hard to say what it all meant.

Or even if it meant anything at all.

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Trois Couleurs: Bleu ~ (for Momo)

Grady Echegaray ~ (Originally published at strangepixels.net, August 20th, 2010)

Losing too is still ours,

and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.

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When something’s let go of it circles,

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and though we are rarely the center of the circle,

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it draws around us it’s unbroken, marvelous curve.

~ R. M. Rilke ~

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I’ve been here before

Ahhh…Shinjuku

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You never change.

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Population: 305,352

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And yet here I am…

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…and there is no one around.

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So the question is…

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…where’s the party?

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So there I was, again…

…hanging in the old basketball court in Suffugium.

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Dancing to Giu’s tracks…

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with Juana and Lorek and Neo and Sandusky and Apo and Wise and Xeno and Slash…

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…when I started to feel sort of…faint.

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OBVIOUSLY time for some “stimulant”.

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ahhhhhhhhhhhh……..whoa!

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THAT says hello!

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The evening looks even BRIGHTER now!

Details below ~

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Drive, She Said

This is going to be some drive.

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They aren’t called The Wastelands for no reason.

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Time to roll.

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Stay frosty.

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*stretches

I need a pit stop.

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Wonder if Giuseppe’s home.

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…and awake.

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He never was much of an early riser.

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The Good Replicant

Damn Deckard!

How does a guy manage to completely drop off the grid and disappear like that?

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I could have really used his help on this assignment.

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Take out the last rogue Nexus 6 loose in L.A. indeed.

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Well, I guess it isn’t Deckard she needs to worry about.

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It’s me.

The first Nexus 7.

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Looks like my ride.

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*Takes a deep breath.

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Bulletproof Fashion

Satellites are out tonight.

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The Blade Runners too.

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They say that Deckerd…

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…that he’s the best.

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But he’ll never catch me.

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Oh no he won’t.

Details in the vest pouch ~

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