Programming Fiction?
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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I Robot, (the original, not the chopped up version of the movie), if you can find it is great. It is a very old book. It started me reading Science Fiction when I was 8 years old. I am 71 now. In these days when people are programming robots, it talks about the pitfalls of applying programming logic to the real world.
Good read for all of us
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I started this one and got bored to tears and dropped it. Does it get better later on in the book?
One vote against.
I kind of know what you mean, the characters are very cold and it's hard to remain engaged at times. I found it was worth sticking with, I enjoyed reading it through to the end. I am someone who really likes character development in novels and my criticism is that there is no real character development, but the ideas in themselves kept me going. [Edit] the pace of the novel does pick up after a bit.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
thatraja
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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Tor has a list of 8 SF books that get programming right. 8 Science Fiction Books That Get Programming Right | Tor.com[^] Some authors have played with the similarity of programming and the use of magic, where the slightest syntax error or vague specifications can have unintended and disastrous consequences. The Monkey's Paw trope is an example of that.
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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Read some Greg Egan. I can recommend Permutation City, Distress, Teranesia, and most of all, Diaspora, which, for any programmer, is nothing short of stunning.
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
thatraja
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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[The Cuckoo's Egg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Cuckoo's\_Egg\_(book)) is technically non-fiction, but it sure reads like fiction.
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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If I'm in the mood, I reach for some Neal Stephenson, so that's a very good start. Not specifically programming as such, but very engineering/tech based. Snow Crash (below) is described as "like many of Stephenson's novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy." My personal favourites: * Interface * Diamond Age * Cryptonomicon * Snow Crash
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You might like the Laundry File books by Charles Stross. The Atrocity Archive is the first in the series.
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I Robot, (the original, not the chopped up version of the movie), if you can find it is great. It is a very old book. It started me reading Science Fiction when I was 8 years old. I am 71 now. In these days when people are programming robots, it talks about the pitfalls of applying programming logic to the real world.
Good read for all of us
Agree that most movies chopping up source material. I saw the movie. I'll include this to my list(Though started reading Asimov short stories already).
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Tor has a list of 8 SF books that get programming right. 8 Science Fiction Books That Get Programming Right | Tor.com[^] Some authors have played with the similarity of programming and the use of magic, where the slightest syntax error or vague specifications can have unintended and disastrous consequences. The Monkey's Paw trope is an example of that.
Even I found this page recently, useful one :thumbsup:
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a computer as a pretty important character. Comedy, not science fiction though, if that matters.
agolddog wrote:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a computer as a pretty important character. Comedy, not science fiction though, if that matters.
As long as related to computers, it's a tick. :thumbsup: I heard about the series already.
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Read some Greg Egan. I can recommend Permutation City, Distress, Teranesia, and most of all, Diaspora, which, for any programmer, is nothing short of stunning.
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Yeah, found this series recently, looks good!:thumbsup:
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[The Cuckoo's Egg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Cuckoo's\_Egg\_(book)) is technically non-fiction, but it sure reads like fiction.
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If I'm in the mood, I reach for some Neal Stephenson, so that's a very good start. Not specifically programming as such, but very engineering/tech based. Snow Crash (below) is described as "like many of Stephenson's novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy." My personal favourites: * Interface * Diamond Age * Cryptonomicon * Snow Crash
Yeah, Recently added his books(Snow Crash & Cryptonomicon) to my list :thumbsup:
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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Do you mean things like Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)? What makes it a "programming" novel? (would the movie Hackers count as a book?) And based on 30+ years of experience... WHY? I live in a fictional Programming world, where we were just asked to deliver a small 12 week project by Feb 1st. COMPLETED, and they are still "working out" the contract they hope to sign by Monday/Tuesday of next week. I think I get MORE than enough FICTION... LOL... [On the bright side, if we pound in 90hr work weeks, bring in some extra resources (ROTFLMAO), and put other projects on hold... I am CONFIDENT that by Feb 1st. We will have 80% of the ANSWERS to the questions we gave them last week. LOL)... And you want to read MORE Fiction? My gosh... Where do you work? (And how do you have time to read?) LOL
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Do you mean things like Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)? What makes it a "programming" novel? (would the movie Hackers count as a book?) And based on 30+ years of experience... WHY? I live in a fictional Programming world, where we were just asked to deliver a small 12 week project by Feb 1st. COMPLETED, and they are still "working out" the contract they hope to sign by Monday/Tuesday of next week. I think I get MORE than enough FICTION... LOL... [On the bright side, if we pound in 90hr work weeks, bring in some extra resources (ROTFLMAO), and put other projects on hold... I am CONFIDENT that by Feb 1st. We will have 80% of the ANSWERS to the questions we gave them last week. LOL)... And you want to read MORE Fiction? My gosh... Where do you work? (And how do you have time to read?) LOL
Kirk 10389821 wrote:
Do you mean things like Digital Fortress (Dan Brown)?
I heard that it handled programming things incorrectly/badly even though it's a known novel by a popular author. But this thread has bunch of perfect novels related to programming.
Kirk 10389821 wrote:
What makes it a "programming" novel? (would the movie Hackers count as a book?)
Different thread needed for movies later.
Kirk 10389821 wrote:
And based on 30+ years of experience... WHY? I live in a fictional Programming world, where we were just asked to deliver a small 12 week project by Feb 1st. COMPLETED, and they are still "working out" the contract they hope to sign by Monday/Tuesday of next week.
I'm also in similar boat with 16+ years of exp.
Kirk 10389821 wrote:
My gosh... Where do you work? (And how do you have time to read?)
Thanks to EBooks! I buy ebooks from smashwords, kickstarter, amazon kindle(Also I use kindle unlimited). My laptop, tablet & smartphone loaded with these ebooks so I'll be reading something anytime. This is happening only from last couple of years only(It was hard to read books regularly in past), I'll be continuing this forever. Unfortunately I need to cool myself with more movies & books to escape from nightmare work regularly. I'm better than before.
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Recent years, I have started reading more books(Thanks to ebooks). I'm looking for Fiction(Novel, Short story, Drabble, etc.,) related to Programming / IT / Computer / Hacking / Software. Any recommendations or past reads from you? Books or websites, anything fine. Please share. (Recently added few Cory Doctorow & Neal Stephenson's books in to wish list)
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Hi, Not exactly programming, but kind of adjacent to it. It's not the main topic, but the tech side of things is believable and reasonably well detailed. Cory definitely is a rich seam to mine, I'd recommend these below, plus Void Star: Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (free)[^] Cory Doctorow - Car Wars (free)[^] Cory again - Little Brother (free)[^] Zachary Mason - Void Star[^] Adam
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Hi, Not exactly programming, but kind of adjacent to it. It's not the main topic, but the tech side of things is believable and reasonably well detailed. Cory definitely is a rich seam to mine, I'd recommend these below, plus Void Star: Cory Doctorow - When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (free)[^] Cory Doctorow - Car Wars (free)[^] Cory again - Little Brother (free)[^] Zachary Mason - Void Star[^] Adam
Thanks for the last one :thumbsup: Others are already in my list
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