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	* 1990 - ''Digital Dreams'' (collection of original stories, edited by David V. Barrett, featuring Terry Pratchett's name on the cover)		* 1990 - ''Digital Dreams'' (collection of original stories, edited by David V. Barrett, featuring Terry Pratchett's name on the cover)
	* 1997 - ''Cyber-Killers'' (edited by Peter Haining~~, writing as Ric Alexander~~)		* 1997 - ''Cyber-Killers'' (edited as Ric Alexander by Peter Haining)
	* 2004 - {{OMWF}}		* 2004 - {{OMWF}}
	* 2012 - {{BS}}		* 2012 - {{BS}}

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	* 1990 - ''Digital Dreams'' (collection of original stories, edited by David V. Barrett, featuring Terry Pratchett's name on the cover)		* 1990 - ''Digital Dreams'' (collection of original stories, edited by David V. Barrett, featuring Terry Pratchett's name on the cover)
	* 1997 - ''Cyber-Killers'' (edited by Peter Haining, writing as Ric Alexander		* 1997 - ''Cyber-Killers'' (edited by Peter Haining, writing as Ric Alexander)
	* 2004 - {{OMWF}}		* 2004 - {{OMWF}}
	* 2012 - {{BS}}		* 2012 - {{BS}}

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Myk Streja: Not just the beginning

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Not just the beginning

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	{{hatnote\|''Note: The actual title of this story is '''''#ifdefDEBUG + ‘world/enough’ + ‘time’''''', but due to the requirements of MediaWiki's software, page titles cannot ~~begin with~~ a hashtag (#) ~~or a lowercase letter~~.}}		{{hatnote\|''Note: The actual title of this story is '''''#ifdefDEBUG + ‘world/enough’ + ‘time’''''', but due to the requirements of MediaWiki's software, page titles cannot contain a hashtag (#).}}

	== Synopsis ==		== Synopsis ==

Myk Streja: Added short story with software caveat

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Added short story with software caveat

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[[File:DD 1990.jpg|thumb|200px|right|First time published]]
{{hatnote|''Note: The actual title of this story is '''''#ifdefDEBUG + ‘world/enough’ + ‘time’''''', but due to the requirements of MediaWiki's software, page titles cannot begin with a hashtag (#) or a lowercase letter.}}

== Synopsis ==
Based in what would have been the near future, Darren Thompson is an independent technician operating an artificial reality machine repair service. He’s called by the police to come to the scene of a death involving one such machine, with a representative of the machine’s manufactory present. His job is to determine if it was the machine—a rather elaborate model—or something else that caused the user’s death. But there’s ''something'' about this corpse in particular…

== Author's note ==
In a preface to the story in the anthology {{BS}}, Terry Pratchett says:<br />
“This was published in 1990 in the anthology ''Digital Dreams'', edited by Dave Barrett. I was tempted to ‘update’ this–after all, it’s about Virtual Reality, haha, remember that everybody? I am so old I can remember virtual reality!–but what’s the point? Besides, it would be cheating.<br />
“I just liked the idea of an amiable repairman, not very bright but good with machines, padding the streets of a quiet, dull, sleeping world. Things are breaking down, knowledge is draining away, and he’s driving his van around the sleeping streets, helping people dream.<br />
“Now, many years later, it appears rather chilly and maybe quite close to home.”

== Publication history ==
* 1990 - ''Digital Dreams'' (collection of original stories, edited by David V. Barrett, featuring Terry Pratchett's name on the cover)
* 1997 - ''Cyber-Killers'' (edited by Peter Haining, writing as Ric Alexander
* 2004 - {{OMWF}}
* 2012 - {{BS}}

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