Sourcerer, the Patriarch of Rancho Deluxe, acted as Minister of Defense, Shaman, and informal historian of both alt.cyberpunk and the Ranch. He was also a repository of much critical knowledge about the putative topic of alt.cyberpunk, the literature of science fiction. Sourcerer seldom took an active role in the descriptive construction of the cooperative narrative but tacitly accepted and participated in the conversations generated by the Rancho threads.

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