Into the Shadows (UC) by Shadowrun

Author:Shadowrun [Shadowrun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FASA
Published: 1990-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

FREE FALL

by Tom Dowd

NEW YORK, United Canadian American States—At a star-spangled satellite conference yesterday Scott Mislan, image coordinator for MegaMedia, announced the sale of the eight-millionth copy of Free Fall. Free Fall, the simsense disk that media experts credit with establishing the market, launched the career of its star, Honey Brighton, four years ago, in 2046. Mislan also announced that Rock Solid, the next Honey Brighton simsense, was currently in post-production at MegaMedia's Seattle studios, under the governing hand of Free Fall's famed director, Witt Lipton. "We seriously expect Rock Solid to outsell Free Fall within the year," said Mislan.

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In the dimly lit rooms of technology where simsense programs are really made, Witt Lipton is god. This is a world of suggestions, impressions, and false images, a world where subtlety and directness work hand in hand. The fax ads scream: "The Experience Of A Lifetime!", "Be There As It Happens!", "Feel The Surge! Hear Your Pulse Race! Fly On The Wild Side! All Without Leaving your Floatchair!" and the public believes. They believe that when Honey fells four thousand meters, pulls her ripcord and nothing happens, that the quick, piercing spike of sexual ecstasy she/they feel is real. Witt Lipton knows better. He knows that it's as real as MegaMedia's three-million-nuyen Yamaha SSX-7500 signal processor can make it.

Five years ago, he was an assistant programmer, pushing

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