Reddit reviews Headcrash

Because this is a headcrash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_crash
And there is the book https://www.amazon.com/Headcrash-Bruce-Bethke/dp/0446673145

If you enjoy sci-fi at all, Headcrash by Bruce Bethke is fantastic. It's a send-up of Gibson, Sterling, Dick, Rucker, Tom Clancy, Ernest Hemmingway, and nearly every bad "Cyberpunk" movie of the last 30 years. Strangely enough, the actual plot's decent, too. That's rare for parody books.

Plus, you can find it in paperback for less than $4 at Amazon. I have to re-order regularly because my loaner copies regularly disappear.

Hello,

A bit more developer than sysadmin oriented, but Headcrash by Bruce Bethke comes to mind.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Already been mentioned but:

Neuromancer - genre defining, gritty, required reading. ;)

Snow Crash - Excellent, hugely enjoyable characters, good sci fi



Also good and haven't been mentioned:

Headcrash by Bruce Bethke - bizarre, silly, fun cyberpunk (for instance, full sensoral cyberspace connection is done through a rectally inserted probe..)

The Mind's I by Douglas Hofstadter - Excellent collection of short stories about cognitive machines

Wyrm by Mark Fabi - "Interweaving mythology, virtual reality, role-playing games, chess strategy, and artificial intelligence with a theory of a Group Overmind Daemon susceptible to religious symbolism, first-timer Fabi pits a group of computer programmers and hackers against a formidable opponent who may fulfill end-of-the-world prophesies as the millennium approaches."

Headcrash is a humorous look at the cyberpunk genre.