[NCLUG] Computer Inspired Fiction Recommendations?

[Rich Young]

I know Marcio has called off the hounds on this question, but I realized
last night that I had failed to mention one of my favorites, "Whiteout" by
Sage Walker.  This book isn't centered on hard computing the way some of the
others mentioned are, but it did a better job than any I've seen before of
portraying a functioning collaborative work environment based on networking
and VR.  Snowcrash and Neuromancer were ahead of their time in the way they
imagined the internet, but Whiteout was written later on and had the benefit
of a clearer understanding of how people were going to use the internet.
I'm still amazed nobody has implemented primitive versions of the tools
Walker imagined -- I'd love to see a dual-cursor text editor, for example,
so users could edit collaboratively and simultanaeously.

--Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
> Marcio Teixeira
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:01 AM
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] Computer Inspired Fiction Recommendations?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've just finished reading Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" and before 
> that Jeffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." Both of them are thrillers 
> based on computers. I thought they were pretty good (and the glaring 
> inaccuracies about computers only made it more fun to read) and was 
> wondering if anyone had any recommendations on other works of fiction 
> that a computer person might like (any Linux fiction out there?)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcio Luis Teixeira
> 
> 
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