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Cyberpunk: NOW!

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The Server Prayer

"I am a node of Server.

Born of flesh and blood, but enhanced by the power of it's web. 

I have no use for pain or fear.

My scripts are the focus of my will.

My strength is my knowledge, my weapons are my skills. 

Information is the blood of my body. 

I am part of the greater network.

I am host to the vast data of server.

My flesh is weak, but my connection is eternal;

And therefore, I am a God."

-Sean Kennedy VI, Tales from the Afternow

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"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1862)

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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

-Isaac Asimov

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“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all it’s successful individuals since the beginning.”

-H.G. Wells

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“She wore mirrored glasses. Her clothes were black, the heels of her black boots deep in the temper foam. […] The glasses were surgically inset, sealing her sockets. The silver lenses seemed to grow from smooth pale skin above cheekbones, framed by dark hair cut in a rough shag. The fingers curled around the fletcher were slender, white tipped with polished burgundy. The nails looked artificial.”

-William Gibson, Neuromancer

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“Man is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”

- William S. Burroughs

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“I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.”

-Willard Gaylin

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“Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us… Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.”

-Edward O. Wilson

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“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage”

-Ray Bradbury

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“I’m not much but I’m all I have”

-Philip K. Dick,

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“Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”

-Ray Bradbury

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"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men." - Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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“Power rides her fingers, she moves from datashell to datashell, walking the nets like the ghost of a shadow, her trail vanishing behind her as she goes. She carries power in the dark behind her eyes.”

- Melissa Scott, Trouble and Her Friends

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“The wires he wore had grown all through him, as the roots of trees replace the flesh of corpses”

- Raphael Carter, The Fortunate Fall

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“The Street Samurai is born to the Metroplex, he’s as tough as it’s alloy steel bones and as dangerous as ground glass. His augmentations are more than just tools to him, they are his style. He’s chromed and proud of it”

-Shadowrun 1st Edition, “Street Samurai”

Image source: Eugene Postebaylo

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“The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal”

- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother​

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“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”

- Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon