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Spirit of the Night by Tom Maddox (Science Fiction) (www.baen.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/shortstories@literature.cafe

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A cyberpunk story originally published in 1987! Kind of interesting to see that era's depictions of cybersecurity and AI.

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[–] Lacanoodle@literature.cafe 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now this isn't smth I've ever heard of, looking forward to reading it

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

tbh the story's not that great, I just wanted to post it to !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip and figured I'd post it here first and then crosspost, to advertise this community. (I don't think it worked, though, I only got one upvote and one downvote there. out of 512 subscribers!) But the story's kinda interesting as an early depiction of hackers in the cyberpunk subgenre.