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

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

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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!

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lemmy.world

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.

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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

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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

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sh.itjust.works

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.

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