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John Jacobs

DN: CN = John

Jacobs, C = US, O

= Neometropolis

Reason: I am the

author of this

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Date: 2005.09.11

09:16:19 -05'00'

Contents

Hope for a Cyberpunk Future

Derek J. Goodman Pill (fiction) 3

Earl Wynn Lost in the Machine (poetry) 10

Jason Earls Black Hole 14: An Iteration Problem (article) 12

G. W. Thomas The Homemade Prisoner (fiction) 16

Rob Shelsky Custom Planets—the Art of Creating

Worlds (article) 19

Ryan Oakley It Woke Up (fiction) 25

Ed Lynskey Excalibur’s Final Lament (poetry) 28

R. Cee Inheritance (fiction) 30

Anne Mondlock Cover Art

Neometropolis is:

John Jacobs - Editor, Webmaster, False Prophet

Tim Knodle, Pete Mondlock - Assistant Editor/Chatboard Moderator

Daryll, David, David, Holly – Chatboard Moderator

publication may be retransmitted or redistributed, electronically or

otherwise, without the express consent of its respective author.

NEOMETROPOLIS

This issue dedicated to…

and

A. R. Yngve, author of Terra Hexa

http://yngve.bravehost.com/

Issue # 0X06, 09/2005 -1- http://www.neometropolis.com

NEOMETROPOLIS

HOPE FOR A CYBERPUNK FUTURE

These events should come as no surprise to us, for we saw them coming all

along in both our dreams and intuitions.

The world is at a turning point, and the concepts underlying the “cyberpunk”

theme will become all the more prominent in the years to come—political and

economic turmoil, dehumanizing effects of technology, and increasingly polarized

groups of people at all levels from the local to the international. Humanity is

entering into a contractive phase, the structure of which was made clear to us

decades ago by a brilliant man named Ralph Nelson Elliot. To say that it is “bad”

is as foolish as cursing the night, for in all reality it is a natural event. What it is, is

a manifestation of the collective fear/desire complex of an entire race of

unusually sentient apes.

Those that came before us—William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, John Shirley, etc—

will and rightly should be hailed as prophets of a new aeon. The clarity of their

vision of a dark technological future is astounding considering that it came about

at the beginning of the greatest bull market in history. And the players in the

subsequent drama that unfolded—the George W. Bush’s and Bill Gates’s of our

time—will and rightly should be forever branded as traitors.

Where Gibson and Dick left off, I will follow. I have chosen to carry their torch

because I have always felt their message. Being a child of the 1980’s, this is my

birthright. Growing up, I had the opportunity to witness the greatest financial and

technological boom of all time. But unlike the majority of my peers in the

Nintendo Generation I was also granted the wisdom and insight to know that the

neon electric decadence of the 80’s and 90’s is going to hurt like a coke binge

hangover. Like the phases of the moon, the waves on a beach, or the Fibonacci

swirl of a spiral galaxy, this is only natural. And fortunately, I also know that there

will be a day to follow night.

John Jacobs

August 30th, 2005

Issue # 0X06, 09/2005 -2- http://www.neometropolis.com

NEOMETROPOLIS

PILL

Derek J. Goodman

Macy took one pill from each of the bottles and put them in the little plastic try in

front of her. The purple pill with its shiny-sweet coating had been prescribed to

her last week by her doctor for her ADHD. The red and white pill she’d been

taking for eight months, and that was for her obesity. The tiny white pill next to it

was for her anorexia. The large white oval pill was for her STP and ID4, or

maybe that was the orange pill. She couldn’t remember what the black-speckled

pill was for, and when she’d asked the pharmacist he couldn’t remember either,

but she’d been taking that one the longest so it had to be the most important.

Each pill, twice a day, every day, for the rest of her life. That was the price she

had to pay for all the screwed up crap-DNA she was made from.

Macy took a bottle of water, specially medicated with all the minerals and trace

prescriptions a body needed, and used it to wash down each pill one by one.

When she’d been younger she’d entertained the idea that one day she would no

longer need the drugs, that on a magical Disney day she would be Normal Girl.

Then she had learned to tolerate the pills, then accept them, then one day she

woke up and realized she actually looked forward to medication time. This was

the closest she would ever be to Normal Girl. To the world around her, even, she

was Normal Girl. The only person who knew any different was herself.

***

Macy Farr had started to suspect she had a problem when she was about six. It

had been a beautiful winter day, with a bright, cold sun shining over fresh,

unmarred snow. Even with the sun overhead a few stray snowflakes had drifted

down from the sky, and Macy had made a game of chasing and catching them

on her tongue. Three had fallen on her mitten, and she’d run inside to show her

parents her beautiful new treasures. Her parents had watched the snowflakes

melt with grim faces, and later they talked in hushed whispers while throwing

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ContentsHopeforaCyberpunkFuture2DerekJ.GoodmanPill(fiction)3EarlWynnLostintheMachine(poetry)10JasonEarlsBlackHole14:AnIterationProblem(article)12G.W.ThomasTheHomemadePrisoner(fiction)16RobShelskyCustomPlanets—theArtofCreatingWorlds(article)19RyanOakleyItWokeUp(fiction)25EdLynskeyExcalibur’sFinalLame...

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