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7: Walter Jon Williams: They'll decant a new body for you, but your girlfriend has a robot snake in her throat.
6: Ian McDonald, Terminal Café: Nanotech makes you immortal unless you dissolve, and it takes 1000 years to pay off your debt.
-1: Richard Morgan: Immortality for the rich, you get accidentally shot in the chip.
-8: Neal Asher: Owner: Everyone dies horribly en masse. Pennyroyal: Everyone dies horribly individually. Sable Keech: You get immortality from a leech, it sucks.
#cyberpunk

Cyberpunk survivability scale, x/10:
9: Bruce Sterling: You'll be fine, if not entirely Human.
5: Gibson: Even shitty Ginza punks can afford electronics and drugs.
3: Pat Cadigan: Homeless people become long-term data storage.
2: Lew Shiner: You like eating cat food?
1: John Shirley, Eclipse: Rock 'n roll and sniper rifles might slow down fascism.
-5: Rudy Rucker: Your species will go extinct due to cute moldies or downloaded aliens.
-10: John Shirley, other: Oh no.
#cyberpunk

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#PennedPossibilities — If your MC (or you, for the MC) made a five-song playlist, what songs would be on it and why?

I will do the hard work for Alexios on this one. No need to involve the head choom. I know my characters best, eh?

1. Starlight by Muse (It just... fits, especially for him and Trick.)
2. Sail by AWOLNATION (This is Alexios' entire vibe, I'm telling you. The song is so him that it hurts but I also want to headbang. Hell yeah.)
3. Ditmas by Mumford & Sons (This song perfectly fits Alexios as well. Ouch, my heart.)
4. All These Things That I've Done by The Killers (This song guts me. It's so perfectly apt for Alexios.)
5. Houdini by Foster The People (This would totally be one of Trick's favorite songs, so naturally it would become an ear worm for Alexios.)

The honorable mention goes out to Foster The People again for Call It What you want because I think Trick would be a massive fan of that group. Alexios would end up loving them when all was said and done.

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@afewbugs Yeah, I find I can't really call it #solarPunk without punk. And punk is about conflict, specifically, about fighting for your life against pervasive oppression. (Sorry to be reductionist, words are hard.)

I guess for me the difference in solarPunk and #HopePunk vs. something like #cyberpunk is that...the battle can be won, at least, here, and now. That's so revolutionary at times that it's no wonder it bleeds into hyggeFic (to coin a term).

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#PennedPossibilities 517 — Your SC is hosting a get-together at home. Who do they invite and what do they have planned for the night?

Junk would invite the gang to his place. The core members, anyway. We'd have Alexios, Dante, Trick (who's already living with Junk), Astria, Rain, and Cosmia. He might even invite Aero and Jack as well. They're the brothers in the gang and can, at times, be a temperamental pair. Honestly, though, they're just passionate and care about their friends. Tempers flare at times. For the long night, Junk has drinking, good food (that he most definitely cooked), excellent music, and dancing planned. Same old, same old. They'll have a fantastic time too, just forgetting about life and the darkness that surrounds them for a while. They need the rest, the time to let loose, and to just RELAX. Everyone needs that.

This happens in the novel a few times, actually. Junk loves a good party with friends.

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#PennedPossibilities — MC POV: How do you grieve? Do you struggle with it?

Alexios: *chuckle* Do I struggle with it? Of course. Do I grieve? Yes and no. It all depends on the day, or the situation. In all seriousness, I'm terrible at letting go. I can barely say goodbye as it is. I lost my entire f*ckin' planet, all of my friends and family. Doesn't matter if it was two hundred years ago... I still haven't said goodbye, not really. My natural reaction, dear stranger, is straight up f*ckin' rage. Anger is always the response. Blind rage and fury. It's a bad habit of mine... What can I say? Someone close to me is hurt by a rival? I'll go on a raving rampage. I lose a friend? I'll drink myself into oblivion and wake up in the morning seeking vengeance. Yeah, it's not healthy. Oh well, choom. I gotta work on it.

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