Ben Barrett wrote:
> (an aside: I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, which
> is absolutely FABULOUS, and am now enjoying In the Beginning Was the
> Command Line, which I'd also suggest to anyone looking to glean more
> [tech-] historical perspective; it is friendly enough for non-geeks and
> still rich enough to be fun for serious nerds... Snow Crash is the best
> novel I've read in a good while, but then again I don't read very many
> novels. It gets a "go read it now!" rating from me.)
Have you read his other books?
The Big U.
Zodiac
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon (possibly the best geek sci-fi ever, and the
only novel I've ever read that includes a Perl script)
He also co-authored these under a nom de plume, Stephen Bury
The Cobweb
Interface
If I were to recommend one book, it would be Cryptonomicon, with
Diamond Age a close second.
> Frodo, the Deliverator, belongs to an elite order, a Fellowship of
> nine members only. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is
> preparing to carry out his only mission that matters. His armor is
> silver like the light of the full moon, jangling only slightly with
> its decorative gems. An arrow will bounce off its dwarvenmesh weave
> like a hammer off an anvil, but excess perspiration wafts through it
> like the winds over the charred plains of Gorgoroth. All the arrows
> of all the hunters in the world couldn't cut it against this one.
>
> When they gave him the job, they gave him a sword. The Deliverator
> never looks for trouble, but some Orc might come after him
> anyway---might want his armor, or his cargo. The sword is tiny,
> aero-styled, lightweight, the kind of sword a Hobbit would carry; it
> cuts quickly into load-bearing beams without visible effort, and
> when you get done using it around evil, you have to sheathe it,
> because it glows in the dark.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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