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'''''The Shockwave Rider''''' is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer cracking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.
''[[The Shockwave Rider]]'' is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer cracking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.


It is even more notable because it is about the first book to ever describe the internet (although the book calls it the data-net) as something prevalent in everyone's everyday life. If you read it when it came out, you might have trouble understanding why the threat to destroy the data-net is taken as almost the ultimate threat. Today, it is pretty easy to realize the economic and other disasters that would happen.
It is even more notable because it is about the first book to ever describe the internet (although the book calls it the data-net) as something prevalent in everyone's everyday life. If you read it when it came out, you might have trouble understanding why the threat to destroy the data-net is taken as almost the ultimate threat. Today, it is pretty easy to realize the economic and other disasters that would happen.


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=== Tropes in this work: ===

* [[The Cracker]]: This is how the government sees Nick.
* [[The Cracker]]: This is how the government sees Nick.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: Well, the machine isn't exactly God, but it does see all and the ending is, without giving it away, interesting.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: Well, the machine isn't exactly God, but it does see all and the ending is, without giving it away, interesting.
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* [[The Mafia]]: {{spoiler|We find out they are running the government}}.
* [[The Mafia]]: {{spoiler|We find out they are running the government}}.
** [[Redesigning Eva (Darth Wiki)|Natasha Grant]] must've been having a hell of a time.
** [[Redesigning Eva (Darth Wiki)|Natasha Grant]] must've been having a hell of a time.
* [[My Country Right or Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Again, Paul Freeman before his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Again, Paul Freeman before his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Freeman's boss.
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Freeman's boss.
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: The Delphi pool.
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: The Delphi pool.
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Latest revision as of 16:52, 19 October 2017

The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer cracking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.

It is even more notable because it is about the first book to ever describe the internet (although the book calls it the data-net) as something prevalent in everyone's everyday life. If you read it when it came out, you might have trouble understanding why the threat to destroy the data-net is taken as almost the ultimate threat. Today, it is pretty easy to realize the economic and other disasters that would happen.

Tropes used in The Shockwave Rider include:
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