Re: The Silicon Manifesto

[vulpez]

Okay, I like it. It's pretty much the most original thing I've written in a long time.

That said, I have to re-write it a lot. The whole first chapter thingy doesn't work. I mean, it's clearly one hell of a zinger but I think it blows my wad too soon, for one, and it doesn't feel like software wrote it.

Put another way, it's one hell of an intro

Comments

[caffienduk]

Also, you do have something already from the Neuromancer trilogy, don't you?

[vulpez]

I do not. I have certainly read Neuromancer (I'm not a complete philistine), but it was years ago, I don't have a copy, and no particular quotes stick in my mind. Please suggest some!

[lordheadshot]

"Fuck! Even in the future, nothing works!"

Darth Helmet, Spaceballs

[phasedweasel]

Futurama:

Bender: You're no Femputer, you're a Fembot!
Fembot: It's true. I disguised myself as a Femputer so I could rule the Amazonians.
Bender: But why?
Fembot: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet. A planet ruled by a chauvinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?

[emustrangler]

Well, if the story takes a turn for the apocalyptic, you could quote the computer from "War Games"

"Lets play Thermonuclear War" and "The only way to win is not to play".

[casabonika]

You simply MUST have a character named Dave in your story.