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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
- Richard Morgan
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| Panther Modern | ||
| Cyberterrorists for hire. |
| "The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent..."
The Moderns were mercenaries, practical jokers, nihilistic technofetishists. |
| Technovelgy from Neuromancer,
by William Gibson. Published by Phantasia Press in 1984 Additional resources -
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Compare to the infowar operation from Bruce Sterling's 1998 novel Distraction.
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