What if we all had to make everything we used? It would be like the stone age all over again! What happened to the porn? You're sure the title said something about porn.Īha! Stross's chief protagonist is one Liz Kavanagh, a washed-up detective inspector in the Edinburgh police force. But these trendy internet people are making stuff for themselves – all kinds of stuff, from electronics and robots to 3D printing rigs. Apparently people don't make things anymore, we just consume, like the passive foolish consumers we are, worshipping at our altars of mass consumerism. This is a trendy internet term for people making things for themselves. But the image of a Fender Stratocaster, dripping with foamy suds, covering the private parts of a nude model is stuck in your head now and your lizard brain isn't letting go of it any time soon.īy the time you haul your eyes back to the screen Walter has started yakking on about "maker culture". Walter's going on about how this isn't just about porn but is really a clever way of talking about the proliferation of ideas and resources in the internet era blah blah blah. In fact you are rather tempted to Google "Wet Riffs" and see what you find there, but think it's also rather likely to be NSFW.
You follow the link and decide that yes, it is indeed rather amusing. It states simply that "pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject", and was featured as a rather amusing cartoon on the famous XKCD web comic. Rule 34 is one of those internet memes people keep talking about. it's all beginning to sound a bit avant garde to you.
What's more, this is the second book in which Stross has pulled this stunt, the cheeky bugger! To write one novel in the second person may be considered misfortune, two is starting to look like carelessness. It's written entirely in the second person, like one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books from when you were a kid, only better. Apparently some bloke called Charles Stross has written a science fiction novel called Rule 34.
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