From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!kirk!russ Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Recommending Shockwave Rider - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.738 Posted: Thu Mar 10 12:12:06 1983 Received: Sat Mar 12 00:57:27 1983 #N:kirk:25000006:000:533 kirk!russ Mar 7 10:46:00 1983 Has everyone out there read Shockwave Rider (by John Brunner) yet? It's about a person who has a supersecret password for this world net. The protagonist runs around writing `tapeworms', programs which `live' by propagating themselves around the net. It's a really good book. I seldom buy books, but this is one that I own. (I don't buy books because I read most sf books at about one hundred pages an hour. A three dollar paperback lasts about two/two and a half hours at that rate.) Russ Nelson ...hp-pcd!hp-cvd!russ