[geeks] Good computer fiction books

[Nicolai]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 01:29:09AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> Mmm.  Rick Cook's books come to mind (The Wizardry Compiled, The
> Wizardry Cursed, and similar punny titles).  Daniel Keyes Moran's _The
> Long Run_.  _Wyrm_, by...(someone) Fabi, if memory serves (the book is
> not readily accessible to me right now).  Numerous short stories, of
> which Asimov's _The Last Question_ is perhaps one of the best known.
> The presence of computers in fiction is of course a spectrum, not an
> all-or-nothing thing; there are plenty of stories (eg, Vinge's book
> _Marooned In Realtime_ is an example: computer technology is
> ubiquitous, but the book is hardly computer-oriented; the tech is
> backdrop and world, not the focus of the story.
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Wow, I really appreciate the lengthy response, it was far more than I
hoped for.  Thank you.  Now I've got a bunch of books and stories to
stagger in between others on the reading list!

Nicolai