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   Netrunner to All   
   Re: [OT] Fragments of a Hologram Rose   
   14 Oct 08 04:33:08   
   
   From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant SanFrancisco2019 covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >   
   >"Netrunner"  wrote in message   
   >news:fme2f41n2l0civu0vp2751lmsvvohk4jh4@4ax.com...   
   >   
   >> That does bring forward one something that I'm interested in - do you   
   >> like Gibson in Cyberpunk era, or, like Pattern Recognition, his "Okay   
   >> the future has arrived now, so I'll write about the present" stuff?   
   >> And which would you rather watch movies about?   
   >>   
   >> Netrunner   
   >> --   
   >>   
   >   
   >    Definitely cyberpunk.  He started to lose me with "The Difference   
   >Engine" (which I think most would consider steampunk)  and "Virtual Light".   
   >And I may be about to lose any small amount of credibility I've established   
   >in this group, but I have to admit that as horrible an adaptation as it was,   
   >I found 'Johnny Mnemonic' quite entertaining.   
   >   
   >    There, it's out there and I'm sure my reputation is now day-old   
   >agedashi-tofu crushed under the jackboot of a rockabilly performer on a   
   >Sunday afternoon in Harajuku.   
   >   
   >    And I wanna see 'Neuromancer', if only to see who they cast as Molly,   
   >and how they work out the special effects for her finger nails.   
      
   Well you made me laugh anyway.  I don't think you have to look much   
   further than my chosen nom-de-plume to guess what I like...   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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