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Under the Hammer: they're watching and waiting.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Like most people, Hooper spent days inside waiting for the chance to go out in a downpour. Clouds didn't stop them targeting the ID transmitter in the phone implanted behind your right ear, but rain was said to scatter the beam before it could strike you down. On dry, overcast days Hooper sometimes spotted a neat circular hole punched through a cloud, meaning someone had been zapped in the next burb. Too close to home. But when it rained, the streets would fill with smiling people. Then it felt like the old days again.

If he had to go out in fine weather Hooper kept moving, stayed underground, favoured multi-storey buildings, stuck with groups of hunched, scurrying people, even though there was no point. The targeting was so good now they could pick you out, fry your brain with...

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