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[+] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
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    Monofilament wire is a real thing, it just doesn't have the tensile strength to act like it does in fiction.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
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    If you like Mono-filiment whips you should read the Paratwa trilogy by Chrisopher Hinz.. it's about assassins that have 1 mind in 2 bodies, thus more eyes and coordination skills. They train from early childhood to use these Black eggs that extrude a monofilament whip.. it take years to control them so they don't whip about and cut yourself to pieces.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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    you could also read Burning Chrome...

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    Burning Chrome is normally published as a collection of a few short stories (burning chrome is one story in the collection). There is an assassin that uses monofillimant wire somewhere in one of the stories.

    William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace" in Burning Chrome, is generally regarded as the pioneer of cyberpunk

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