Meanwhile, this has arrived. A book called 'If(Sid_Vicious == TRUE && Alan_Turing == TRUE) { ERROR_Cyberpunk();}' was either going to be very good or very bad. The code in the title was perhaps a hint that it would be the latter. == TRUE. Surely you jest, sir?(*) 'If(Sid_Vicious && Alan_Turing) throw Cyberpunk()' perhaps would have been more promising, but perhaps he is leaving exceptions for the sequel. Lots of 'cut up' - perhaps I am missing something but it looks like gibberish to me, and the inevitable 'She started cutting her arms in middle school' toss. Where would such a book be without a smidgeon of self-harm?
Oh, you are so deep, profound and sensitive Mr Earls. Now FUCK OFF.
Another one for the Oxfam pile. I recommend it goes in the STC (straight to cat-litter) pile once there.
Since it is clearly tin-foil hat week in your fabulous soaraway LJ, can I also mention the Charles Stross story in Glorifying Terrorism? The Labour NEC meeting in which those members not killed by the Junta or sent to the death-camps resolve to take up armed struggle against the BNP government, and accept the blame for enacting the legislation that made it possible.
Now, write out 100 times.
I will not seek out the irk.
I will not seek out the irk.
etc.
Enough of this nonsense, back to the excellent Mr. Newman's 'Seven Stars'.
(*) A purist might say that saying TRUE rather than true puts this in the pre-boolean era, and there is therefore a possibility that Sid_Vicious and Alan_Turing could take values other than FALSE or TRUE. But still...
