On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 00:04:22 -0400 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
On 4/6/19 11:28 PM, John Newman wrote:
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I need to read True Names (thanks!) - although a cursory search didn't find the phrase.
See also The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, 1975: The first tale of a "hacker" (not so named) who wages war against State actors. A cursory search did not turn up a link to the text; my copy arrived in hard cover via the Science Fiction Book Club. Interlibrary loan if all else fails...
try https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/7780471/Brunner__John
I would nominate our Mr. Brunner as the "most under appreciated" SF author of his generation: Uniformly brilliant work IMO; as another example, people who appreciate CPunk concepts would likely find The Stone That Never Came Down very inspirational.
:o)