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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @11:32PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20 2017, @11:32PM (#481846)

    rabble-rabble-rabble

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday March 21 2017, @02:51AM

    by mendax (2840) on Tuesday March 21 2017, @02:51AM (#481944)

    Hmmm..... The Unholy Green Site from Mars by Cowboy Neal?

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    It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday March 22 2017, @03:34PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday March 22 2017, @03:34PM (#482771)

    My Nebula vote this year goes to "Saved for NCommander to post a story". It has a brilliant hard sci fi plot, isn't excessively SJW preachy, contains plenty of great memes, and its a fast read. Its got aspects of computer science archeology, alt-history thriller superficially about CSI style data reconstruction in a parallel universe where we all run Microsoft Xenix 10 on our laptops.

    I anticipate a bright future for the fresh and exciting new genre of Xenix-punk and I look forward to seeing what other authors will do in that vibrant new world. For example imagine crossovers in the genre of Xenix-punk with adult undead erotica where a womyn of color living a vibrant exciting urban life meets the man of her dreams who can't go out in the sunlight because he's either a sysadmin or a vampire (or both) and their struggle to find meaning in a post colonial world of environmental catastrophe and lots and lots of sex. Or maybe a story like "50 shades of floppy disk labels" where the post-modern characters experiment with steamy alternative disk formats, its not like the boring and traditional way of pounding in an unlubricated floppy disk and being done in 60 seconds, its so slickly erotic its guaranteed to turn your /dev/fd0 into a /dev/hd0 assuming your Xenix-punk interface driver is MFM/IDE-curious. Xenix-punk is all about the wild and free days before viruses when people thought nothing of a guy sticking his Xenix boot disk deep into any girls central processing unit. Drug fueled weekend long binges of operating system installs with one guy using multiple disks at the same time, pretty steamy stuff. I'm sure it won't all be degenerate, Xenix-punk will have good girls waiting for the right CP/M to come along then she never leaves single user mode even when she spawns off child processes, good family values like that.