simstim

Yes, there's hot RAM the fact that people are trading RAM in megabytes in the "future" is one of very few details that date the novel, a military outfit called Screaming Fist and simstim consoles.

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This is all coming to you courtesy of the simstim unit wired into your deck, of course.

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Then she raised her left, smiled, touched her open palm with a wet tongue tip, kissing him through the simstim link.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

One or all of them, he was certain, would be kinked for audio, very likely for simstim, and anything he said or did now was admissible evidence.

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He'd known that her reflexes were souped up, jazzed by the neurosurgeons for combat, but he hadn't experienced them on the simstim link.

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"I'm gonna check Molly," Case said, tapping the simstim switch.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Case winced as the betaphenethylamine hang - over hit him with its full intensity, unscreened by the matrix or simstim.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

"Sit tight," Case said, and hit the simstim switch.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

He knew then: the rage had come in the arcade, when Wintermute rescinded the simstim ghost of Linda Lee, yanking away the simple animal promise of food, warmth,

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Case watched Bruce's trike until it was out of sight, then turned and walked past a vast, brilliantly lit newsstand, the covers of dozens of glossy Japanese magazines presenting the faces of the month's newest simstim stars.

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