Wyrm: the Novel.

By Mark Fabi. (Has he written anything else?)

If this book is like Neal Stephenson, only somewhat less so, I need some Neal Stephenson. Wyrm is an hilarious techno-thriller packed with transparent allegory, obscure allusions, and bizarre hacker humour.

I'll not try to summarise the plot here, but:

See also: Role-playing games, AI, mythology, John Galt, Knights of the Lambda Calculus, Ourobouros, MUD, noble rot, semantic network, bicameral mind, virus, world domination, recursive acronym (Wyrm Yields Recursive Monster), and hacker.