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Wintermute is the name of a character in a book called Neuromancer.  A book most of us here would not read.  Here is a quick bit regarding the story:

 

Drug addict and brilliant cyberspace hacker Henry Dorsett Case is recruited by razor girl Molly Millions, who is under contract to ex-military man Armitage. Case's recently damaged nervous system is preventing him jacking into cyberspace, and Armitage offers to repair the damage in return for a hacking job. Lost without cyberspace, Case agrees to the operation. Armitage installs mafia insurance in the form of toxin sacs in Case's bloodstream. Molly and Case grow close; they investigate Armitage, and discover that he is being controlled by an Artificial Intelligence named Wintermute.

 

Wintermute kills the agents and Case unleashes the Icebreaker....hence Theron's reference to a new Speedster as his Icebreaker.

 

How'd I do Theron??

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Originally Posted by Robert Mc - Fresno, CA:

Wintermute is the name of a character in a book called Neuromancer.  A book most of us here would not read.  Here is a quick bit regarding the story:

 

Drug addict and brilliant cyberspace hacker Henry Dorsett Case is recruited by razor girl Molly Millions, who is under contract to ex-military man Armitage. Case's recently damaged nervous system is preventing him jacking into cyberspace, and Armitage offers to repair the damage in return for a hacking job. Lost without cyberspace, Case agrees to the operation. Armitage installs mafia insurance in the form of toxin sacs in Case's bloodstream. Molly and Case grow close; they investigate Armitage, and discover that he is being controlled by an Artificial Intelligence named Wintermute.

 

Wintermute kills the agents and Case unleashes the Icebreaker....hence Theron's reference to a new Speedster as his Icebreaker.

 

How'd I do Theron??

Written in 1983. On a typewriter. Coined "cyberspace". 

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