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• at_a_remove · Jul 23, 2021 · Recommends

  …I hesitate to recommend Doctorow -- he is faddishly distracted and senselessly optimistic. Vinge's "True Names" stands out. Maybe When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One for the AI side of things. The amusing Headcrash, writings by Pat Cadigan, Jeter's deliciously dystopian Noir is a favorite if you want to see how bad it might get. Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams, but that one has been a while.

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• blincoln · Feb 8, 2024 · Recommends

  > Snow Crash is satire of more "serious" cyberpunk Agree 100%. If anyone has trouble seeing that <i>Snow Crash</i> is satire, I recommend reading <i>Headcrash</i>, by Bruce Bethke, then going back to <i>Snow Crash</i>. If <i>Snow Crash</i> is the original <i>Robocop<i> (a satire that was deadpan enough that many people missed the satire entirely), then <i>Headcrash</i>…

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• ashtavakra · Dec 5, 2025 · Recommends

  …https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175303.A_Deepness_in_the... ## Terry Pratchett - *Going Postal* — Comic Fantasy, Satire of Bureaucracy & Tech https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal ## Bruce Bethke - *Headcrash* — Cyber-satire https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213465.Headcrash ## Mary Shelley - *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* — Classic Gothic Sci-Fi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35031085-frankenstein…

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• pseudolus · Jan 17, 2019 · Mentions

  Bizarrely enough there was a parody of Snow Crash called "Headcrash" which was was written by... Bruce Bethke who coined the term Cyberpunk [0][1]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Headcrash-Bruce-Bethke/dp/0446673145 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke

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• at_a_remove · Aug 28, 2020 · Mentions

  …sounds silly. We're talking about an OS with commands like chown, awk, and grep here and where 'zombie children floating in the pipe' is a legitimate description of an error state." — Bruce Bethke — Headcrash

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• tankenmate · May 30, 2025 · Mentions

  When Vibe Coding meets Headcrash (Bethke)[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcrash

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