================ ------------------------------------------------------------  |||||||| 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 <garbo.uwasa.fi>; /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" <johnl@cs.indiana.edu>  From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)  From: thom kevin gillespie <thom@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>  From: Paul Christopher Workman <pw0l+@andrew.cmu.edu>  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 <stephenh@cs.mun.ca>  From: Duane F Marble <dmarble@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>  From: Wolfram Wagner <ww@mpi-sb.mpg.de>  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 <vinge%saturn@sdsu.edu>  From: Paul Lebeau <plebeau@cix.compulink.co.uk>  From: "Lawrence Rounds" <ljr@beach.cis.ufl.edu>  From: phydeaux@cumc.cornell.edu (David Weingart)  From: chgs02@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (By learning+courtesy)  From: Rowan Fairgrove <rowanf@cache.crc.ricoh.com>  From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb,x114,6982322,3982735)  From: Gara Pruesse <gara@cs.toronto.edu>  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" <CHGS02@VAXB.STRATHCLYDE.AC.UK>  From: mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov (Marc Mengel)  From: Roger Scowen <rss@seg.npl.co.uk>  From: kevino@clbooks.com (Kevin Oster -- System Administrator)  From: chavey@cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)  From: Vonda McIntyre <mcintyre@cpac.washington.edu>  From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.sf.ca.us>  From: "Scott Thomas Yabiku" <yabi@midway.uchicago.edu>  From: Thomas Adshead <uad1212@dircon.co.uk>  From: Paul Andrews <76050.161@CompuServe.COM>  ===== ======================================= ---------> MUCHO thanks to all!