i just picked up greg bear's new SF novel _Slant_. it's set in mid- next-century. i'm only twenty pages into it, so i can't honestly give it a recommendation yet, but the following is from one of the "chapter intro" quotes, and it has some cypherpunk-topical stuff in the author's 'techie gobbledygook' in the 2nd paragraph [note: possibly offensive ... but if you're on this list, why am i bothering to warn you? :-) ]
From: Anonymous Remailer To: Pope Alexander VII Date: December 24 2043
"You're just a Catholic Dickhead, you know that? Come to my town (wouldnt you like to know you shit) sometime and I'll show you a GOOD TIME. Let you bodiguards know that I'm about seven feet tall and dressed like the Demons in NUKEY NOOKY which I bet you've plaid too you asswipe hippocrit!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!"
EMAIL Archive (ref Security Inv, Re: Thread = Encyclical 2043 Vatican Library> Cultural Tracking STAFF /INDA 332; reverse track through Finland> ANONYM REMAIL Code REROUTE> SWITZERLAND/ZIMBABWE> ACCT HDFinster> Harrison D. Finster ADDRESS 245 W. Blessoe Street Apt 3-H Greensboro NC USA PROFILE> 27 years of age at time of message, >CONCLUSION: FLAME PROFILE No action necessary. ref Vatican Internal Investigator comments: "Young, shit for brains.")
imagine that, the vatican cracking remailers.... "Democracy is government by the people and for the people, on the theory that the people should get the kind of government they deserve, good and hard." -- Robert Frezza, _The VMR Theory_