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Just uploaded another Liminasis into the collection: "Clean Up and Recovery." The protagonists rescue and AGI from beneath the NEOM Line City, ruined during a Saudi-Iranian nuclear exchange.

I'm reading Gibson's book, "The Peripheral" right away when it was released back in '14, I think. I haven't read it since, but am rereading it now. 
          
          It's only been about nine years and already, there are places in the book where it no longer feels particularly prescient because Gibson, even in this short amount of time (historically speaking) missed some stuff. The Peripheral is set, well, we don't know for sure because NEVER dates his stuff, but we can be reasonably sure the part of it that's "pre jackpot" is probably in the early 30s, so, y'know, maybe 10 years from now. The story does have Web3 stuff insofar as it takes for granted high fidelity "metaverse" style gaming but it has NO crypto and it vastly underestimates the impact of AI will have by the 30s. Gibson gets right the massive proliferation of robots in the future timeline but doesn't think that we'll have something like that by the 30s which we probably will. 
          
          But I'm saying this in 2023 while homey wrote back in 2012/13 and published in 14.
          
          Nine lousy years; not long at all. Damn y'all....
          
          Things are moving so fast now that writing "near future" sci-fi and having it "age well" even over eye blink portions of history is getting to be impossible.

In fourth liminasis in the Liminases collection (titled: "Let the Four be Gathered,") Constanine visits Raven Pollux at the Hack'em Center. The "Hack'Em" (HCAM) Center is first featured in the second book of my trilogy. HCAM stands for Hawthorne Community Arts and Magic. The place has a entertainment/gaming/bar area called "Flynn's" (a call-out to the Tron franchise) as well, signal shielded conference rooms, other presentation areas and class room, as well as (although I haven't mentioned it yet anywhere in my writings published, or yet to come, a small arcane library of Natural Philosophy and books on the Traditions and Conditioning where local Portlanders can study magic and try to learn things about it without needing to shell huge amounts of cash attending university or whatever.
          
          Anyway, the Hack'Em was inspired by the Czech organization: Paralelni Polis's physical space that's open in Prague. It's a hacker/cypherpunk space that approaches crypto/web3 tech more as a pathway toward constructing alternatives to our overly controlled and surveiled society than it is about using crypto to try and get rich.
          
          There's a wikipedia page about Paralelni Polis as well as a Youtube channel. I don't know how wattpad reacts to posting non-personal links so I'll not link to a good intro to Paralelni Polis but I'll give you all this: If you go to youtube and do a search for "Mário Havel - PARALELNI POLIS, INSTITUTE OF CRYPTOANARCHY, BORDEL HACKERSPACE" you'll get a good 20min intro and history for it. :)

Just submitted a story for a contest; my first! At this juncture, I intend to compete often!

The prodigy sits within the probability landscape like a black hole gravity lens; her potential is enormous but remains locked away and mysterious. Her guardians seek to complete their company; the three must become four....
          
          ...this is the fourth liminasis.

In the third liminasis, somebody winds up taking a job offer from the most powerful and controversial AGI in the world. After the events of the first book in my trilogy, this guy swore to himself he'd never work for this AGI (or any AGI) again, but, well, things happen....

The second "liminasis" within the Liminases collection will be called "Trash Talking." 
          
          There's going to be a bit of Romeo and Juliette in it, some negotiation, some magic, some tangled webs, and a few bullets. Maybe more than a few bullets, I'm not sure yet. I'm still in the dev notes and outlining phase and haven't begun writing. :)