Ah god now I need to play xcom again

I don’t know; what’s a cundus with you?

Okay this is berserk levels of cool

I need someone to feed it as prompts into image creation AI and print the results in 10ft canvas. I might just try and pull off a concept album. It’s the cyberpunk equivalent of Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Oh no

Pictured here, a final showing off of my copy, complete with loose art insert. You cannot have it! It is MINE.

I’ll add that I will be forever proud that having figured out what this was, my colleague found more copies (via the artist himself, whose number was on the back of the book and still active), and CB is now on the shelves of major institutions’ sci-fi collections worldwide. Rightly so.

It is effectively AI having a metaphysical crisis and losing its coherence in dada-esque tones. The tech death we once feared and now part pray for.

I love Cigarette Boy and so should you. The entire text is available with a quick google, so have it!

It is more art than book. Indeed, the author Darick Chamberlain describes himself as a designer. The book itself was published in fittingly moody Seattle.

The entire (ring bound!) book is laid out like this, a clusterf*ck of broken code, bizarre segues and at least three good band names per page.

We didn’t know what to expect, but the book itself was ready to instruct us accordingly:

I came across Cigarette Boy entirely by chance, browsing eBay for odd cyberpunk curios as is occasionally my wont. I’d never heard of it, and neither had our literature specialist. Considering our trade, this is reasonably intriguing to start with, though obviously not unheard of. So, he bought it.

I shall raise my hand in here to say hallo. Peter Harrington’s technical director and all around dork! :)

You’re an utter gem for this

Nice to find you on here! I’m Rob, tech nerd over at Peter Harrington. Just appeared on here and trying to figure out if there are some solid rare book starters!

In 1980 maybe.

Correct!

And the best pizza at that