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Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html Snake Eyes From Mirrorshades Tom Maddox Snake-Eyes By 1986 the new Eighties esthetic was in full swing. Its current state of the art is brilliantly represented by this story from Virginia writer Tom Maddox. Tom Maddox is an assistant professor of languages and literature at Virginia State University. He is not a prolific writer, his output to date a bare handful of short stories. Yet his mastery of the cyberpunk dynamic is unsurpassed. In this fast-paced, intensely visionary story, Maddox moves swiftly and incisively across a broad range of the Movements themes and obsessions, Snake-Eyes stands as a definitive example of modern hard-core cyberpunk. Dark meat in the can-brown, oily, and flecked with mucus-gave off a repellent fishy smell; and the taste of it rose in his throat, putrid and bitter like something from a dead mans stomach. George Jordan sat on the kitchen floor and vomited, then pushed himself away front the shining pool, which looked very much like what remained in the can. He thought, no, this wont do: I have wires in my head, and they make me eat cat food. The snake likes cat food. He needed help, but knew there was little point in calling the Air Force. Hed tried them, and there was Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, /abclit.html no way they were going to admit responsibility for the monster in his head. What George called the snake the Air Force called Effective Human Interface Technology, and they didnt want to hear about any post-discharge problems with it. They had their own problems with Congressional committees investigating the conduct of the war in Thailand. He lay for awhile with his cheek on the cold linoleum, got up and rinsed his mouth in the sink, then stuck his head under the faucet and ran cold water over it, thinking, call the goddamned multicomp then, call SenTrax and say, is it true you c