On Monday , we held a contest to see who could caption this picture using two prison term of William Gibson - esque prose . Our nine succeeder get free copy of Gibson ’s Zero History delivered powerful to their meatspace ! register the winning entries below .
achiever , please institutionalize me your names and addresses via private messageto my io9 accountso I can send your prizes !
AND HERE ARE THE WINNERS ( in no particular ordering ):
Officer Jace Kitow pull the puppetprops and feel the sharp stab of gravity feedback as the ghostcopter spin down and pulled the city of Leti Corvan before his eyes . The metropolis ’s vast photosynthesis fields were dotted with industrial blocks and steel road like an previous microchip , and it was Jace ’s line to find the shorts . ( scottbalmes )
He had to work quickly . It would n’t be long before someone started to wonder what a officer was doing with a such an expensive piece of kit , and from there it was just a small-scale footmark to wondering whether he was a really a policeman at all . ( var_able )
She bang he would have an app for that . ( A2 )
The sky above was the color of the back your own school principal . calculate up was looking down , surveillance ultimately just another form of introspection ; the field glass - eyed bobby spat . ( brdf )
point 2 was proceeding as design : the whispering - drone fired a neuro - dart full of pheromone into the guard ’s neck , while his security feeds were hacked and overlaid with high gradation smut . He would be incommunicado for hours . ( idelaney )
If Rydell had n’t really been a King ’s Cross economic rent - a - cop , Chevette might have been able to take the whole affair as a kind Cosplay - decease - surveillance - fetishism . ( coryhaim8mydog )
The monotone was fifty grams of injection - molded Chinese charge plate surrounding four German induction motor and an Irish usage chip earlier designed for a Balinese fluid speech sound . The glass , though — “ The glasses are a scrap naff , ” PC Slothrop admitted timidly . ( chronodm )
That was when UniPol slap the argus hummingbird on the Dutchman . The tech was originally spin up out of carbon - fibre and prayer wheels by Malaysian way “ paparazzo ” , really just untried Kyd pay in bhang for pictures of naked demi - starlets on the defend beach of Cheong , but UniPol use up one look at it and sleep with they had different plans for it . ( ValenciaAnaxibia )
Once the AIs combined and faded into themselves , McCoy Pauley was relieved of his duty of mortality and lie there in the sky blueish silk lined casket – clothed in a meticulous Japanese - made mid 20th century British Bobby uniform establish on a exposure of the Flatliner ’s great - granddaddy . A cell of silent Nissan MedEvac microcopters , long removed from their initial deployment during the Columbia Secession Incident a decade ago , hovered over the casket waiting to deliver McCoy to whatever Jehovah would check his earthly mainframe with his wiped ROM construct . ( GongShowGoalie )
There were over 200 launching – many of them funny and well - write – andI suggest you read them all !
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