9mo ago

We're all just characters in someone else's cyberpunk story

cross-posted from: https://corteximplant.com/users/x00001/statuses/112491302665199252

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Image description: the yaer was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail
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9mo ago

We're all just characters in someone else's cyberpunk story

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It's not cyberpunk to my knowledge, but there's apparently a story out there that makes fun of this type of sci fi description writing, by telling what seems to be a military adventure story about going to fight and conquer some aliens, but is revealed by the very end to actually have been the story of the conquistador that conquered the Inca empire, but with everything described this way such that it sounds like more advanced technology than it is.
- That sounds amazing. Any link?
  
  I think I found it
  DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE BY DAVID GORDON
  
  Legend
  
  Well that's definitely the kind of username I'd pick if I was telling history as a sci-fi type story.
  
  The First Empire had conquered most of the known universe by political intrigue and sheer military strength; it had fallen because that same propensity for political intrigue had gained over every other strength of the Empire, and the various branches and sectors of the First Empire had begun to use it against one another.
  The US is so fucked.
  
  ~~Looks like it’s this one.~~
  
  nope, that doesn't sound like it at all.

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