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skonen_blades) wrote2007-03-27 11:05 pm
skonen_blades) wrote2007-03-27 11:05 pm
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Lurking with sharks
Headfirst into the mainstream with my lawsuit buzzing, that’s the only way to do it. The cold data can stop your heart. Bright red crosses dance around me, warding off viruses that can infect my setup and make it drain others.
So I guess crosses finally work against vampires.
The pile of reflexes and soft meat back in my room smiles as the brain inside its head sees the entire world in an agreed-upon colour code.
A filter of money, information, governments and public works light up the pinball machine on the floor of the e-net worldview. Flyers like me cluster moth-like around the bright, shapely nodes. We are superheroes but there are billions of us. We are gnats in clouds buying from the neon pyramids.
How little things change. Commerce uses creativity to drive innovation. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and really, what greater necessity is there above feeding one’s self? Therefore, one invents. One invents stories. One invents tales.
One lies.
I’m here to check up on how my lies are doing. People worry about powerful viruses without realizing that the most dangerous virus of all is the most prolific; the spoken word.
A simple paragraph of text gets past all of the defenses. It’s innocuous. I sprinkle them behind my glowing sylph of an avatar as I float down to the e-street floor. They follow in my wake like phosphorescent algae behind a boat in the hardworld. They are my dandelion seeds.
My body is dying back in the meatspace. I need a new one and I need backups. I need volunteers moved by pity and motivated by greed. I need the gullible and the feeling. I need bleeding hearts in healthy bodies. I want liberals that don’t smoke to travel hundreds of miles, knock on my door, and offer themselves to me.
I need a new body every year. I have no more in the basement. I have spent over eight months realtime honing my craft.
My perfect paragraph moves, promises, affects and drowns. It twists reason with emotion to give birth to plausible reasons. It manipulates logic by employing religion. In places, it tells outright untruths.
With luck, it will make you give your body to me.
I have a week left. Cross your fingers. Wish me luck.
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So I guess crosses finally work against vampires.
The pile of reflexes and soft meat back in my room smiles as the brain inside its head sees the entire world in an agreed-upon colour code.
A filter of money, information, governments and public works light up the pinball machine on the floor of the e-net worldview. Flyers like me cluster moth-like around the bright, shapely nodes. We are superheroes but there are billions of us. We are gnats in clouds buying from the neon pyramids.
How little things change. Commerce uses creativity to drive innovation. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and really, what greater necessity is there above feeding one’s self? Therefore, one invents. One invents stories. One invents tales.
One lies.
I’m here to check up on how my lies are doing. People worry about powerful viruses without realizing that the most dangerous virus of all is the most prolific; the spoken word.
A simple paragraph of text gets past all of the defenses. It’s innocuous. I sprinkle them behind my glowing sylph of an avatar as I float down to the e-street floor. They follow in my wake like phosphorescent algae behind a boat in the hardworld. They are my dandelion seeds.
My body is dying back in the meatspace. I need a new one and I need backups. I need volunteers moved by pity and motivated by greed. I need the gullible and the feeling. I need bleeding hearts in healthy bodies. I want liberals that don’t smoke to travel hundreds of miles, knock on my door, and offer themselves to me.
I need a new body every year. I have no more in the basement. I have spent over eight months realtime honing my craft.
My perfect paragraph moves, promises, affects and drowns. It twists reason with emotion to give birth to plausible reasons. It manipulates logic by employing religion. In places, it tells outright untruths.
With luck, it will make you give your body to me.
I have a week left. Cross your fingers. Wish me luck.
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No no, really, it works! You need to read it.
Peter Watts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts). That's the guy. Blindsight (http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765312182). That's the book. Read everything else he wrote, too, but that's a keeper.
He actually comes up with a vaguely plausible scientific explanation for the whole cross thing.
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But seriously. Thanks for the heads up. Never heard of the guy. I'll check him out.
If you like a little vampire action, I really enjoyed George RR Martin's Fever Dream. Steamboat vampires.
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But for space vampires, my money's on the Vorvon (http://www.geocities.com/buckrogers_nz/space_vampire.html).
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"... a first contact with aliens story from the point of view of a zombie posthuman crewman aboard a starship captained by a vampire, with not dying as the boobie prize."
Gold. I have to read it now. My hands are tied.
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I cried more during that novel than I have during any other.
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