Re: psychoceramics: transhumanism

["Nikolai Kingsley" <nikolai @ very.net>]

> That reminds me of a short fiction I read once in Omni.  I believe it was

> called "The Dancefloor."  For some reason, it's stuck with me for years, 
> and if any of you have read it/know who the author is, PLEASE tell me, as

> I can't for the life of me find that copy of it.  It was about a 
> futuristic "rumble," situated in an old warehouse with swinging grids of 
> steel on which the gangs would dance and stomp and jump on in some 
> beautifully awful fight.  One of the fighting sides had their heads 
> almost rebuilt as doberman heads, with sharp, shiny steel teeth.  I don't

> remmeber the particulars about the other gang, but, in this society, 
> weapons had been banned, so the people made weapons out of their 
> anatomies.  Dashing good time, I'd say!


sounds a bit like the last part of William Gibson's 'Johnny Mnemonic'.

nikolai