[NCLUG] Computer Inspired Fiction Recommendations?

[Mike Loseke]

 I thought that the list would be incomplete if we were to leave off
Clifford Stoll's "Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer
Espionage". It's non-fiction but I remember enjoying the read very much.
It's about him tracking some non-US crackers from Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
Good read.

 Also, I second all of the Neal Stephenson suggestions, especially
Snowcrash. Most memorable line from the book (aside from the entire first
chapter with the Deliverator) is "Maybe they'll listen to Reason." Inside
joke you'll have to read to enjoy. :)

Thus spake Marcio Teixeira:
> 
> 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?)


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                  | "Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what
   Mike loseke    | we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a
                  | world of connections -- and it matters which ones
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                  |  -- Donna Haraway, author of "A Cyborg Manifesto."