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chitoryu12 posted:Before we begin, let's look at some of the praise put at the beginning of the book and decide whether or not to ironically weep. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead UHF channel which could only be accessed by a cheap seventy-five cent loop antenna you could pick up at K-Mart, Woolworths, and sometimes FYE. UHF would show kung fu movies simulcast on local FM stations for the audio, but you had to watch and listen at exactly the same time, and only when the TV Guide told you it was on. UHF had, like, another eighty channels, but usually only a dozen or so were actually broadcasting. So it was like one of those channels where nothing was on. That's what the sky looked like." "Case found himself staring through a shop window. The place sold small bright objects to the sailors. Swatches, Balisongs, pet rocks, slap bracelets, Tech Decks, Tamagotchi (a Generation One! They could die in a day, given a moment's inattention and required a deft hand to thrive), and shuriken. The shuriken had always fascinated him, steel stars with knife-sharp points. They reminded him of the Glaive from Krull. He knew actually, that a glaive was nothing like it was portrayed in the movie: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (first edition, of course) and Gary Gygax's exhaustive list of every kind of pole weapon taught him that."
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