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 lookgood 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 attachmentAND 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 wackedlayout and bizarre illustrations for much of its meaning, notto say charm.
And it was difficult to figure what should be considered thefirst chapter, for obvious reasons. I think the firstchapter really includes Section II,but never mind. Here it is, the beginning of…
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** THE********** REAL********** CYBERPUNK********** FAKEBOOK******************** By St. Jude, R.U.Sirius, and Bart Nagel***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Dedication: For all our parents and lovers and housemates andchildren and friends, for the Cypherpunks, forKevin Crow, Nesta Stubbs, The Omega, Phiber,and hackers everywhere.
========================================================| || INTRODUCTION to The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook || by Bruce Sterling, || A Renowned Cyberpunk Writer || |========================================================
I like this book so much that I'm thinking of changingmy name to St.Erling. You couldn't ask for better guides tofaking cyberpunk than these two utterly accomplished Bay Areafraudsters. These two characters are such consummate bohohustlers that they make Aleister Crowley look like Rebecca ofSunnybrook Farm.
I don't believe in smart drugs, and I've never believedin smart drugs, but I do believe the following. It'sgenuinely useful to society to have some small, containedfraction of reckless fools who are willing to consumeuntested and unknown devices and substances. Sure, most ofthem will have their hearts explode or break out into greatpurple bleeding thalidomide warts. But who knows, maybesomeday one of these jaspers will be eating handfuls ofpsychoactive crap out of some hippie pharmacy and he or shewill suddenly learn to read Japanese in the original in sixdays. That's not at all likely, but it could happen— grant me thepossibility.
The only drawback to this decentralized, libertarian,free-market regime of biomedical research is that you have tobe ruthlessly prepa