19 Jun
2001
19 Jun
'01
7:09 p.m.
From: petro[SMTP:petro@bounty.org]
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> Subject: Ian Grigg's Crypto Fiction Choices Cc: iang@systemics.com
A Fire Upon The Deep
You missed "A Deepness in the Sky", written by Vinge, and published in 1999. Crypto plays an important part of the story, and, well, it's Vinge, it's worth a read.
... as does privacy, surveillance tech and it's avoidance, etc. Excellent book. But.... Did you catch the hint that they're running an Unix-descended OS? ...it's pretty well hidden. Peter Trei