(Brief commercial announcement here. Y’all regular Wetmachine readers can skip it).
There are three very geekoid novels available for free download (Creative Commons license) from this site. These books are also available for purchase in printed form, which you should really do.
Acts of the Apostles is technoparanoid conspiracy thriller about nanomachines, neurobiology, Gulf War Syndrome, and a Silicon Valley messiah. Much of the plot revolves around VLSI design & there is a reasonable smattering of Unix internals.
Epub & Kindle & other ebook versions here.
Cheap Complex Devices is a metafictiony novella in the Borges/Nabokovian/Eco tradition that purports to be the report of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for Machine-Written Narrative. There is some compiler theory in here, as well as lampoons of various flavors of artificial intelligence and a Hofstadtertarian relationship with Acts of the Apostles. Also some jokes having to do with APL & Donald Knuth.
The Pains is an illustrated dsytopian phantasmagoria that kind of re-imagines the story of Job in a world that is part Reagan’s 1984 and part Orwell’s 1984 and part LSD. There is a fair amount of reference to chaos theory, and to its precursors; in particular to the Finnish mathematician Karl Frithiof Sundman, who (per Wikipidia) “used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in 1906 and 1909.”
Search engines can help you find many dozens of reviews of these books. Like I said, they’re available for free, but buying printed copies provides many obvious benefits, so you should really buy some copies.
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Technopunk cyberpunk dystopian “Neal Stephenson” “Philip K. Dick” technothriller
Below the fold: handy-dandy links to reviews, etc
Salon.com review of Acts of Apostles
Jeffry Zeldman on Acts and Pains
Slashdot on Acts and Cheap Complex Devices
Grumpy Old Bookman on my general wonderfulness
Internet Review of Science Fiction on the Pains.
And of course, teh google can find lots more
