Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

We're your fan and writer host. I'm Blue Gow.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit

Science Fiction University at our website, sciencefiction university.com, where you can also contribute to

this podcast. There is a Patreon button at our website. Or you can mail us a letter and or contribution

to Science Fiction University, P.O. Box, 911,

Springfield, Illinois, 62791.

And here's your warning about spoilers.

This episode contains spoilers for Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, part one,

and the 1984 novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

and possibly other stories that we think are cool or worth mentioning or whatever.

The show contains spoilers for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1.

Repeat, the show contains spoilers for Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1.

So you've been warned.

Today we are interrupting our usual pattern of three no fair remembering stuff episodes

followed by one science fiction university episode to bring you a very special science

fiction university entitled Tommy Nemonic and the rise of the AI antagonist.

Because as part of my birthday weekend, Drift Glass took me to the movies where we sat in the dark for two hours and 43 minutes.

And it was more like three hours with previews and commercials and turn off your phone moron.

You know, big gigantic Coca-Cola fountain drinks, etc.

All that on the screen.

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