Cyberpunk is winning in my head because there's so much fun goofy stuff to mine. Here is potentially the first two paragraphs of such a book:
“Get up. Shower. Brush teeth. Spike my hair with oil and lean it over to
one side. Dust below my eyes for the ‘punched in the face’ look. Apply a
very small amount of green lipstick, one shade darker than my hair.
Begin putting on spiked leather bands. Continue putting on spiked
leather bands. Add some pre-torn clothing somewhere during that process.
Check mirror to confirm I look like death. It takes a lot of time and
effort to not be pretty
No piercings. Too retro. I couldn’t afford a cybernetic arm, even with
trade-in on the original. I found a metal skin-web once, but Mimi stole
it from my trunk and Cosmos stole it from her mattress and Ajax beat
Cosmos up and took it and Chaos blew up Ajax’s trunk to give the web
back to me because he’s sweet and Liriel put a glamour on him and took
it and buried it in the yard so it wouldn’t corrupt our auras or
whatever and Fidget watched her do it, dug the web up, and sold it for
an AR Monster before anyone else could steal it. Death Rooster is wicked
cool and I can’t be mad.”
Yup, I'd keep reading.
ReplyDeleteHa, heh, ha, that last part is crazy!
ReplyDelete...And this is why I bought all your novels. Besides the AWESOME title.
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