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I found this while randomly wandering .. it’s called Cyberpunk Hacker by ~mercikos


















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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” - Samuel Johnson

This was on my brothers IM tagline. I think it’s true.

The topic what is the “Cyberpunk movie list” or “Cyberpunk Book list” appears every so often on Livejournal Cyberpunk.

I thought it was interesting to see what that community think are Good cyberpunk films?

As per usual SFAM’s work at cyberpunkreview.com will include/review most of the mentioned movies.

Find your own truth is the final book in the Secrets of Power Trilogy. I must admit, this stuff seemed much better when I was in high school (I think I read it 11 years ago).

Quick Plot Summary:

Sam is trying to find a magical way of turning his sister back to a human before she succumbs to her wendigo nature of eating humans. In doing so, he inadvertantly takes a magical stone of power, which was protecting a great evil. His Decker friend, Dodger, is exploring the Matrix with the Artificial Intelligence Morgan Le Fey, in a quest to become more than just meat that’s plugged in.

Cyberpunk elements:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Talks about how a semi-autonomous knowbot became sentient through it’s interactions with people (In this case, Dodger and Sam).
• Matrix action - Yes, descriptive (but a little weak) interaction with systems, databases and intrustion countermeasures.

Conclusions:

Following on from Never Deal with a Dragon and Choose your enemies Carefully came to a not very satisfactory end. I think the idea about AI being emergent from a system that is seeded via human randomness is an idea that has also been explored in novels like Halo and Idoru. Which kinda fits in with my current thinking on AI. Find your own truth also touches on the aspect of humanity being tied to the flesh, and that Intelligence that completely resides in systems will behave differently.

Overall, I think it had some interesting elements. However, the last two books in this trilogy really focus on magic in the awakened world. I have no doubt that Shadowrun is cyberpunk, this story definitely has some of the elements, but not in a pure sense like Halo or Neuromancer. I think adding magic into the mix really detracts from the technology side.

I don’t think it was a great read, a little hard to understand the real reason for the evil rising. I had to finish the trilogy, but if you like a bit of pulpy cyberpunk and you’ve started the trilogy, sometimes you just have to see it through.

Rating: 5/10