[NCLUG] Computer Inspired Fiction Recommendations?
Rich Young
rich at ExperiencePlus.Com
Tue Sep 9 09:46:27 MDT 2003
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, should keep you busy for a little while
(it's a long book) and is both exciting and fairly technically literate.
It's also the only work of fiction I've ever read that included a functional
perl script. Linux figures in the plot under a pseudonym -- I think he
calls it "Finux" instead. The main character does a fair amount of hacking
as part of the story line; packet radio figures in, as does PGP, morse code,
Van Eck phreaking, WW2-era codebreaking, Nazi war gold, etc.
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> Marcio Teixeira
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:01 AM
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] Computer Inspired Fiction Recommendations?
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> 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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