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Contents Inane Ramblings 1 Ian Creasey Cut and Pastiche 4 Greg Beatty (For People Only) 21 Andrew Gudgel Night Shift in the Automart, the 23 Goddess Dancing Jerry J. Davis Resurrection of Broken Dreams 28 About Neometropolis… 43 Neometropolis is: John Jacobs, Editor, Webmaster, Megalomaniac Tim Knodel, Assistant Editor, Chatboard Moderator Peter Mondlock, Assistant Editor, Chatboard Moderator Holly Truong, Chatboard Moderator Copyright 2004, 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 INANE RAMBLINGS Well friends, here we are in the last month of 2004. The bleak cyberpunk future predicted by Saint Gibson in the 80’s, which was then scoffed at by the kind- hearted folks at S in the 90’s, is finally coming to pass. Well, it’s coming to pass in a slightly different way. When Y2K came around I never did get a chance to ride around in a post-apocalyptic deathmobile wearing an umpire outfit with spiked shoulder pads and waving around a pike with doll heads impaled on it. I did, however, witness something almost as interesting—the fabled dot com crash and the death of the so-called “New Economy.” While not as exhilarating as fighting mutant zombies with a sawed off shotgun, our present scenario is the end result of the same herd mentality that could have brought about the aforementioned dystopia. In other words, we got lucky. We pulled the trigger and t