From: ianf@random.se (Ian Feldman, The Other Internet Worm[tm]) <1omb6fINNm7s@lynx.unm.edu> Content-Type: setext/plain; charset=ascii_827 Organization: random design -- "Opinions, cheaply" Lines: 138 Summary: formatted as two 69-line pages (use a monospaced font!) Subject: SciP+Fi: fiction set in Comp-Science\ programming environs ================ ------------------------------------------------------------ |||||||| SciP+Fi ction set in C-Sci\programming environs list by Ian Feldman ..........:::::: ---------------------------------------- ---- -------------- Written by:_____ _Book Title_; publisher'year, pp v2.7 ISBN ----------- =============================== ------- ==== ############## John Brunner _Shockwave Rider_; Ray/Ballantine'84 $5_______ 0-345-32431-5 "cracking the net to free information for the common good" Pat Cadigan _Mindplayers_; ("an absolute must-have" --Bruce Sterling) Pat Cadigan _Synners_; Bantam $5; (virtual reality)_______ 0-553-28254-9 Orson Scott Card _Lost Boys_; Harper Collins'92; (programmer and family \ encounters strange events in North Carolina) Denise Danks _Frame Grabber_; St.Martin's, hrdb [GBP]17____ 0-312-08786-1 computer-illiterate journalix tracks down murderer via BBS Toni Dwiggins _Interrupt_; ("a techno-mystery set in Silicon Valley") Michael Frayn _The Tin Men_; Fontana, ("inspired lunacy" but out of print) David Gerrold _When HARLIE was One Release 2.0_; Bantam'88__ 0-553-26465-6 William Gibson _Count Zero_; (computers as gods, part of a trilogy) William Gibson _Mona Lisa Overdrive_; (virtual reality)______ 0-553-28174-7 William Gibson _Burning Chrome_; (cyberpunk short stories)___ 0-441-08934-8 William Gibson _Neuromancer_; (industrial espionage)_________ 0-441-56959-5 (author guilty of inventing the cyberpunk genre) James Hogan _The Genesis Machine_; Del Ray'87 $3__________ 0-345-34756-0 James Hogan _Thrice Upon A Time_; ("time travel for information") James Hogan _The Two Faces of Tomorrow_; Del Ray'79_______ 0-345-27517-9 ultimate test of AI-OS by letting it run a spacelab -> amok Stanislaw Lem _His Master's Voice_; (failed attempt to decode ET-message) Tom Maddox _HALO_ ("remarkable SF of robots & artificial intelligence") George RR Martin _Nightflyers_; Tor Books'87___________________ 0-8125-4564-8 R A MacAvoy _Tea with the Black Dragon_; ("mystery around a computer \ fraud situation; computing bits ring true.") Vonda N McIntyre _Steelcollar Worker_; in Analog Nov'92; (blue-collar VR) Marge Piercy _Body of Glass_; Penguin'92, 584pp; (data piracy++) review \ finger "books=Body_of_Glass%danny"@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au ---> David Pogue _Hard-Drive_; Diamond'93 $5, 304pp____________ 1-55773-884-X (*programmer dies in accident, leaves no documentation \ behind; software firms fight for market share with virii; \ "right out of the pages of MacWorld" --Steve Brock) Richard Powers _The Gold Bug Variations_; Morrow '91, (famous molecular \ scientist ponders on the ?why? of love, life in EDP dept.) Paul Preuss _Human Error_; (nanotech computer infects brain-damaged kid) Thomas J Ryan _The Adolescence of P1_; ACE'79_______________ 0-671-55970-2 (runaway AI experiment takes over mainframes, wrecks havoc) Bruce Sterling _The Difference Engine_; (with W Gibson) Bantam'91; finger \ "books=The_Difference_Engine%danny"@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au Cliff Stoll _The Cuckoo's Egg_; (non-fiction but reads like one); review FTP ; /mac/tidbits/1991/tb048_18-Mar-91.etx Tom T Thomas _ME_; ("smart computers") Vernor Vinge _Across Realtime_; Baen Books_____________ [several titles \ Vernor Vinge _Tatja Grimm's World_; Baen Books__________ soon available \ Vernor Vinge _The Witling_; Baen Books___________________ as Millennium \ Vernor Vinge _Threats and Other Promises_; Baen Books_____ Books in UK] Vernor Vinge _True Names & Other Dangers_; Baen Books'87___ 0-671-65363-6 Vernor Vinge _A Fire Upon The Deep_; Tor Books, 640p, $6___ 0-8125-1528-5 ("essentially about the future of the Internet") John Varley _Press Enter_; ("Short story, gruesome, but good") Ed Yourdon _Silent Witness_; ("Computer crime caper story; gumshoe \ has to explain intricacies of computer OS to girlfriend") Herbert W Franke _Das Zentrum der Milchstrasse_; ("the center of the galaxy") Herbert W Franke _Letzte Programmierer_; ("'the last programmer'; \ I do NOT mean Frank Herbert!") Emil Zopfi _Computer Fuer 1001 Nacht_; Limmat Verlag, Switzerland Emil Zopfi _Jede Minute Kostet 33 Franken_; (last 4 in German; last 2 \ "set in the commercial computing world of the early 70's") ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- current version of this list via `finger "scip+fi%danny"@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- compiled 930424; % mail -s "additions/ comments/ updates --->" ianf@random.se ================ ============================================= ============== Statistical breakdown -------------------------- +-- --------------------- SciP+Fiction -----+------------+------------------+ | # nominations /title ~~~~~~~~~~~~ /author # books nominated | +-- =========== ----------------------------+ =========== ================= + | 5 _The Adolescence of P-1_; Ryan | Vinge 10 6 titles | | 5 _Neuromancer_; Gibson | Gibson 10 5 titles | | 4 _True Names and Other Dangers_; Vinge | Ryan 5 _The Adolescence..| | 4 _Shockwave Rider_; Brunner | Brunner 4 _Shockwave Rider_ | | 4 _When H.A.R.L.I.E was One_; Gerrold | Gerrold 4 _When H.A.R.L.I.E.| | 4 _A Fire Upon The Deep_; Vinge | Hogan 3 3 titles | | 2 _Threats and Other Promises_; Vinge | Lem 3 _Fiasco_HMV_Solar.| +-- ----------------------------------------+ ----------- ----------------- + | # total nominations: 85; authors: 27; female: 5?6; sent in by: 42 readers | +======== ================ ============ ============ =======================+ Contributions by [unsorted FIFO]: ---------------------------------------- From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock) From: "John Lacey" From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy) From: thom kevin gillespie From: Paul Christopher Workman From: kellys@code3.code3.com (Kelly Sorensen) From: whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (William W. Hughes) From: North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North) From: LORETI@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Maurizio Loreti) From: Stephen Hart From: Duane F Marble From: Matthias Neeracher From: Wolfram Wagner From: webb@tsavo.HKS.COM (Peter Webb) From: setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com (Thomas Setzer) From: kevles@acf3.NYU.EDU (Beth Kevles) From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) From: hartman@uLogic.com (Richard Hartman) From: Vernor Vinge From: Paul Lebeau From: "Lawrence Rounds" From: phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu (David Weingart) From: chgs02@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (By learning+courtesy) From: Rowan Fairgrove From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb,x114,6982322,3982735) From: Gara Pruesse From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) From: ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer) From: jon@cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky) From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) From: "A.M.MAIR" From: mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc Mengel) From: Roger Scowen From: kevino@clbooks.com (Kevin Oster -- System Administrator) From: chavey@cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey) From: Vonda McIntyre From: Bruce Sterling From: "Scott Thomas Yabiku" From: Thomas Adshead From: Paul Andrews <76050.161@CompuServe.COM> ===== ======================================= ---------> MUCHO thanks to all! __Ian "The Other internet Worm[tm]" Feldman