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Help me ID a science fiction book
It's about a hacker that come out of retirement for some reason or another(this involved getting a brain box installed). The only other details I can remember are that cyberspace was a bit like the matrix, ice had something to do with security, there is a subplot that features a fat retired sociopath hacker named pacman(i… -
Re: Help me ID a science fiction book
'Neuromancer' doesn't have the Pac-Man guy, but it does sound like you've read it and 'Snow Crash' and a couple of cheaper rip-offs, and they're all mixed up in your head. 'Neuromancer' has the Finn, the nastiest, greasiest techno-fence in creation, whose home defenses seem to include an X-Ray laser; and a ROM construct of… -
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Case and Hiro are both male, so that rules out Neuromancer and Snow Crash, right? -
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Ah yeah.. I might be mixing parts together from the two books. I've got both at home, and I can't check which has which. Neuromancer is a good bet, agreed. -
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It sounds like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash maybe? The main guy in that is named Hiro Protagonist, computer software is referred to as ice, and there is a VR world that he can visit where he can do things like have sword fights. -
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Hmmm, I am really unsure, but wasn't there some book by asimov that also had ice/coldice or something as a security against virus/hackers... But I bet I am mixing that up with other books. -
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It's been a long time since I read the book but I'll look into your suggestions. Thanks. -
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Molly Millions, aka Sally Shears! i dont think the book you're describing is actually Stephenson or Gibson, but rather a close contemporary with similar hallmarks. -
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Yeah, that's Molly, and she has the bionic fingernail blades and such. She's sort of a secondary character, though. I don't remember anyone with a name like Pac-Man, either, but it's been a long time sicne I've read it. -
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Wasn't one of the characters in Neuromancer a woman with knives and things surgically implanted, and the main character surgically cleaned up to get him able to work for the employer? I think Neuromancer is the better bet of the two.
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