The Hacker Crackdown, the
Author: Bruce Sterling
Investigates the rising tide of electronic crimes, probing the issues and personalities involved in wire fraud, 800-number abuse, and computer break-ins that threaten national security…..Read More
13 Books Similar to The Hacker Crackdown, the
Heavy Weather
Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado.… Continue Reading Posted in: Cyberpunk Science Fiction, English Fiction, Technothrillers, United States
Burning Chrome
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. Johnny Mnemonic (1981)The Gernsback Continuum (1981)Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)The Belonging Kind (1981)… Continue Reading
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was before one pioneering work documented the underground… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Fiction, History
Idoru
2lst century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Suspense Fiction, Thrillers
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, American, American Writers, Literary Collections, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Short Stories, Short Stories Anthologies
Count Zero
In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs. Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Computers Social Aspects, Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Fiction In English, Technothrillers
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Matrix (Imaginary Place), Science Fiction
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Computer Hackers, Germany Hannover
Schismatrix Plus
Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.In the last decade, Sterling… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Anthologies
Globalhead: Stories
This second collection of short fiction by Bruce Sterling, set in such disparate environments as ancient Assyria and posthuman France, provides a stimulating and entertaining glimpse inside the 'global head'… Continue Reading Posted in: Science Fiction Short Stories
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