cross-posted from: https://corteximplant.com/users/x00001/statuses/112491302665199252

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Image description: the yaer was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it… probably another Electronic-Mail

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  • @[email protected]
    69•7 months ago

    It’s not cyberpunk to my knowledge, but there’s apparently a story out there that makes fun of this type of sci fi description writing, by telling what seems to be a military adventure story about going to fight and conquer some aliens, but is revealed by the very end to actually have been the story of the conquistador that conquered the Inca empire, but with everything described this way such that it sounds like more advanced technology than it is.

    • JilanicoOPEnglish
      24•7 months ago

      That sounds amazing. Any link?

        • @TexasDrunk
          4•7 months ago

          Well that’s definitely the kind of username I’d pick if I was telling history as a sci-fi type story.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
          2•7 months ago

          The First Empire had conquered most of the known universe by political intrigue and sheer military strength; it had fallen because that same propensity for political intrigue had gained over every other strength of the Empire, and the various branches and sectors of the First Empire had begun to use it against one another.

          The US is so fucked.