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Hackers

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I just can't believe some of the reviews this book has received. Obviously, these poor misinformed fools thought this was related to something else, or they are completely ignorant of the impact cyberpunk has had conceptually and thematically across all mediums of expression...not to mention the impact on the technologies of those mediums.
This is an excellent short story collection...

This book is not a novelization of the movie Hackers, it is a collection of short stories by some of the best SF writers (cyber or otherwise) out there today. Fans of Gibson's Neuromancer "series" will definitely approve, and Sterling is getting better with age if not his exposure to REAL technology. Heavy Weather ROCKED!!!!

The ideas in the short stories are a bit dated, yes, but I was actually referring to the fact that most of them have been collected in newer, later short story compendia so there is an excellent chance that you've already read a good number of them. Gibson's work, of course, is well represented, as are Greg Egan and Bruce Sterling. One of the few short stories written by Neal Stephenson is in this edition, also. It is easy to see where he began to feel out the structure of the model <u>Snowcrash</u> from this particular story.

For the reviewers who have been complaining about this book, it's a collection of short stories about hackers of various kinds (computer, code, intelligence, even DNA) and not about [ha,cr]ackers as the media usually portrays them.

The program was better but the book was more detailed,it is about a group of people hacking into computers I read it when I was 9 but I am an advanced reader for my age of 10.
Claire Handel from Isle of Wight

This is just a book of stories. I don't like cyberfiction, but it is just fiction. Plus since they are science fiction they are about hackers of the future or something not real ones. I don't know what kind of people hackers "really" are & I don't think the point of a FICTION collection is to tell me. As for the lame movie I don't think the stories are related to it.

I think all of these books that are hacker/phreak based like bruce sterling's "the hacker crackdown" make us look like criminals that should be locked up in top security prisons which we are not of course the feds make it look that way I can beleive they would nab us for hacking a goverment site and they always get put back together so why do we get nabbed and put in the clink if everything gets back to normal you should read this book and many others and they will all say the same things that we are criminals you decide for yourself and read it

Ok 1st of off, it's not really that good. The movie wasn't good, and the book isn't any better. It's a lame movie that got a bunch of lamers on the web all excited to become a hacker. Please...need I say more