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The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, by St. Jude, R.U. Sirius?and Bart Nagel (C)1995 Ken Goffman and Jude Milhon
This file contains the first three and half chapters.
From Michael
>>I changed a few spaces here and there to make it look better onscreen, >>let me know if you have any suggestions, corrections, additions, etc.
From Jude
orright, michael: i played with the formatting. it's HELL to make things look good in ASCII, but it looks bettah.
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okay, michael, stand back... here it comes....
i'm sending cybpunk fakebook as a MIME-encoded attachment?AND a paste-in...
look out.... it's terribly silly....
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Dear Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg:
This text comes over a little odd in ASCII. Like MONDO2000-- the zine we made infamous-- this book relies on its wacked?layout and bizarre illustrations for much of its meaning, not to say charm.
And it was difficult to figure what should be considered the first chapter, for obvious reasons. I think the first?chapter really includes Section II,?but never mind. Here it is, the beginning of...




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Dedication:?For all our parents and lovers and housemates and?children and friends, for the Cypherpunks, for?Kevin Crow, Nesta Stubbs, The Omega, Phiber,?and hackers everywhere.

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| INTRODUCTION to The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook |
| by Bruce Sterling, |
| A Renowned Cyberpunk Writer