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From: Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject: More Things
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 16:23:58 EDT
In a message dated 7/31/99 10:45:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
cyberraven@********.net writes:

> >How much of a VCR rig is headware and how much is bodyware, in terms of
>
> Lot of both, IMO. There was a novel published several years ago entitled
> "Hard Wired" (might have been Gibson, I don't own a copy myself, but I do
> know that it was SBed for CP2020) that does a REALLY good job of explaining
> how a rigger feels. If you haven't read it, it is worth it just for the
> descriptions of Pony Boy's panzer (a form of LAV, I think) becoming his
> "body" and how he used it.


That would be Walter Jon Williams , *not* Gibson. Whenever cyberpunk
(genre, not game) is mentioned, people start thinking he's responsible for
everything.
It's worse than the current "I saw Jaun" crisis on Shadowland.






-Twist

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