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Message no. 1
From: Jeff Norrell <norrell@*******.ME.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Gibson and Sterling
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 08:58:12 CDT
I also like Gibson immensely...

I ran into Bruce Sterling in a post office here in Austin...

Boy, what an ass.
Message no. 2
From: Paolo Marcucci <marcucci@***.TS.ASTRO.IT>
Subject: Gibson and Sterling (fwd)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 16:16:25 METDST
>
> I also like Gibson immensely...
>
> I ran into Bruce Sterling in a post office here in Austin...
>
> Boy, what an ass.
>

That's strange... I also have this mood.

One day I decided to create a character based on a Sterling's book:
the Artificial Kid. It was a physical adept with lots of gadgets
(it is still my character, when I play :).

Kindly I posted it to NERPS: Characters, and, caugth by a sudden tought,
write an e-mail to Sterling telling him that I was using on the net
one of his characters, giving him credits, of course.

He wrote me 2 mails: on the first he said that his characters were
strictly copyrighted, and I cannot use them in my games (at my home!)
the second mail said: Shadowrun? Those crappy elves and dwarfs game?
*My* characters never mess with that ****.

Draw your conclusions.

Bye, Paolo

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