Fiction cooler than reality.
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mistersleepless, who is a wonderful person, and you shoudl buy his work. All of it.
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This is the moment.
The world's already changed, and you just haven't been told yet.
People are obtaining things called "cloud drives" online. When they arrive -- a stack of six glassy ovals in a rack -- you plug them into your computer's USB port and then search for "index of /zt3" via stealthtribes.com.
Download a piece of music. Save it to z:// -- your cloud drive. See the gas within the first oval darken as the file moves into it and unzips into the molecular storm. The file doesn't just hold music. It holds information.
Take out the oval. Attach the spout to it. Run your lighter's flame under the cloud egg -- heat activates the information -- and inhale.
Smoke music.
And the information encoded within it is carried into your brain, plugging in to the places it needs to be.
Feel the data inside the music rearranging things.
You're downloading evolution.
(This was an excerpt from STEALTH TRIBES, an original graphic novel written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran, to be released at the end of the year by DC Vertigo.)
STEALTH TRIBES is (C) Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran 2004
mistersleepless, who is a wonderful person, and you shoudl buy his work. All of it.------------------------------------------
This is the moment.
The world's already changed, and you just haven't been told yet.
People are obtaining things called "cloud drives" online. When they arrive -- a stack of six glassy ovals in a rack -- you plug them into your computer's USB port and then search for "index of /zt3" via stealthtribes.com.
Download a piece of music. Save it to z:// -- your cloud drive. See the gas within the first oval darken as the file moves into it and unzips into the molecular storm. The file doesn't just hold music. It holds information.
Take out the oval. Attach the spout to it. Run your lighter's flame under the cloud egg -- heat activates the information -- and inhale.
Smoke music.
And the information encoded within it is carried into your brain, plugging in to the places it needs to be.
Feel the data inside the music rearranging things.
You're downloading evolution.
(This was an excerpt from STEALTH TRIBES, an original graphic novel written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Colleen Doran, to be released at the end of the year by DC Vertigo.)
STEALTH TRIBES is (C) Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran 2004