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  1. April 25th, 2001, 07:45 AM #1
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    Just finished reading a pre-publication copy of Jeffrey Deaver's new thriller "THE BLUE NOWHERE". While the book has arguably one of the best plots I have read in the so-called Cyberthriller genre, it is also riddled with more glaring, obvious, improbable, impossible, ridiculous and downright hilarious technical mistakes than I care to mention here. If someone wants to start a thread on the errors, go ahead, it would make for an interesting topic.

    But to to real reason for this post... what are YOUR recommendations for a good Cyberthriller read that is both well-written and technically correct and plausible?
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  2. April 25th, 2001, 10:11 AM #2
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    Not sure if they are classified as thrillers, but I like William Gibson who does the hard core CyberPunk novels.

    My Favourite is Michael Moorcock. He writes mostly Dark Fanatasy, but one of his books has referrances to CyberSpace, Black Holes, and other Cyberstuff, long before these were topics. His books were mostly written in the '50s-'60s
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  3. April 25th, 2001, 11:33 AM #3
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    Jonney Nematic or somthing like that was good.
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  4. April 25th, 2001, 12:13 PM #4
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    Originally posted by Elbatcho:
    Jonney Nematic or somthing like that was good.

    Johnny Mnemonic Keanu Reaves movie...
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  5. April 25th, 2001, 12:14 PM #5
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    Originally posted by lycia69:

    Johnny Mnemonic Keanu Reaves movie...
    That would be it, I just couldn't remeber that last name.
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    Sorry, I have a lot of time on me hands. Am home sick. Also, have vast amounts of movie knowledge in my head. Don't know why.
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  7. April 25th, 2001, 04:05 PM #7
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    Thanks for the suggestions, but I was thinking more in non sci-fi vein.
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  8. April 25th, 2001, 06:19 PM #8
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    one of my faves is "Snow Crash". Don't remember the author though..
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  9. April 25th, 2001, 06:21 PM #9
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    Originally posted by joshuarat:
    one of my faves is "Snow Crash". Don't remember the author though..
    That would be Neil Stephenson.
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