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Grand Junction Anonymous Tue Jul 13 02:12:14 2010 No.907041 [Reply] [Original]

>On October 4, 2057, most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result. Twelve years later, the survivors are sunk in a new Dark Age, a grim afterworld in which the only law is the law of the jungle.
In the sprawling ruins of Grande Junction, a thriving urban community centered on an abandoned spaceport, civilization is hanging on by its fingernails. In this last fragile outpost of knowledge and reason, hope and faith, a second wave of lethal viruses is unleashed–viruses that attack human beings directly, stripping away language, thought, humanity itself.

>But it is also here that a young boy, a guitar-playing prodigy named Link de Nova, discovers within himself the power to fight a malevolent entity determined to remake the world in its own bleak image. Now, as the viruses spread and enemies converge on Grande Junction, Link and his friends and protectors, Chrysler Campbell and Yuri McCoy, prepare to fight for the survival of the human race with rifles, radios, and rock ’n’ roll.

Thoughts?

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Anonymous Tue Jul 13 02:15:14 2010 No.907052
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>most electronic devices on Earth are infected and destroyed by unknown viruses, and billions of people dependent on machine interfaces are killed as a result.

Hi.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 02:29:14 2010 No.907100 Sounds bitching totally just added to my read list.

>>	AnonymousRebel !KLlX92BWJY Tue Jul 13 02:31:14 2010 No.907105 so they are fighting...the virus?

>>	AnonymousRebel !KLlX92BWJY Tue Jul 13 02:32:14 2010 No.907107 >>907105 oh wait sorry i misread it, sounds pretty good....

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:16:14 2010 No.907644 >>907100 By the way, the author is a Christian

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:24:14 2010 No.907669 First I was like >>907100 But then >>907644 so fuck that shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:25:14 2010 No.907670 Sounded good until... >>discovers within himself the power I hate those types of scenarios. Oh! Lol, I just discovered this dormant power! I'm gonna save everyone because I'm sooo powerful!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:26:14 2010 No.907674 File: 16 KB, 194x279, alain-soral-boxe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dantec j'lui nique sa mère , zdededex.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:26:14 2010 No.907675 From my understanding, the computer virus and the human virus are the same. That's just fucking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:30:14 2010 No.907687 >>907669 But he's a cool christian; loves rock music, anti-muslim, zionist, pro-USA, and hates his own country (France)

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Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:31:14 2010 No.907692
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This book is a sequel to a previous novel (pic related)

>France’s reigning master of cyberpunk is finally being translated into English. First published in 2005, this densely plotted, dystopian thriller takes place in earth’s not-so-distant future, after biological and nuclear warfare have devastated the populace and a cybernetic entity, Uniworld, has assumed control of governmental affairs. Those who can afford it move offworld to the inhabited Orbital Ring. To slip past Uniworld’s brain scanners, visiting Ring citizen Sergei Plotnik has much of his memory wiped before passing through earth’s immigration checkpoints. As Plotnik approaches his ultimate destination of Grand Junction, buried neural implants reveal his assignment to murder the Vegas-like city’s mayor while raising unsettling questions about his true identity and ties to the Mafia-like organization the Order of the Red Star. Dantec’s focus on humanity’s technological enslavement in an unraveling future society inevitably invites comparisons to the milieus of William Gibson’s fiction, yet Dantec has a vision all his own, powerful enough to attract and hold a large fan base and stimulate the translation of his entire oeuvre.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:48:14 2010 No.907731 >>907687 Well that's what makes him a bitch. He's constantly licking Israel's cock. " OLOLOL France is a muslim country , they doesn't even nuke 12 years old kids in IRAQ , USA = FREEDOM and nation of Christ RAWR" What an asshole , seriously.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 08:58:14 2010 No.907748 >>907731 Would you actually prefer living in a islamic country rather than in a christian western country where you get some kind of freedom?

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Anonymous Tue Jul 13 09:03:14 2010 No.907758

>>907748

Wow , I hope you are underage to dare ask a question like that. If not , just stop watching TV for God's sake.

"Would you actually prefer being handsome and rich or ugly and poor ? "
"Would you actually prefer being alive or dead ? "

Come on man , that's not about living in a muslim country. You don't protect your country from the islamic shit and propaganda by supporting a criminal state like Israel or by invading countries ( Oh well , it's to bring them democracy and freedom , thanks the West ! )

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 13 20:16:14 2010 No.910191 > a cybernetic entity, Uniworld, has assumed control of governmental affairs >the Order of the Red Star so its a book about the evils of socialism?