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.