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Contents Hope for a Cyberpunk Future 2 Derek J. Goodman Pill (fiction) 3 Earl Wynn Lost in the Machine (poetry) 10 Jason Earls Black Hole 14: An Iteration Problem (article) 12 G. W. Thomas The Homemade Prisoner (fiction) 16 Rob Shelsky Custom Planets—the Art of Creating 19 Worlds (article) Ryan Oakley It Woke Up (fiction) 25 Ed Lynskey Excalibur’s Final Lament (poetry) 28 R. Cee Inheritance (fiction) 30 Anne Mondlock Cover Art Neometropolis is: John Jacobs - Editor, Webmaster, False Prophet Tim Knodle, Pete Mondlock - Assistant Editor/Chatboard Moderator Daryll, David, David, Holly – Chatboard Moderator Copyright 2005, John Jacobs. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be retransmitted or redistributed, electronically or otherwise, without the express consent of its respective author. NEOMETROPOLIS This issue dedicated to… and A. R. Yngve, author of Terra Hexa / Issue # 0X06, 09/2005 -1- NEOMETROPOLIS HOPE FOR A CYBERPUNK FUTURE These events should come as no surprise to us, for we saw them coming all along in both our dreams and intuitions. The world is at a turning point, and the concepts underlying the “cyberpunk” theme will become all the more prominent in the years to come—political and economic turmoil, dehumanizing effects of technology, and increasingly polarized groups of people at all levels from the local to the international. Humanity is entering into a contractive pha