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'''''The Shockwave Rider''''' is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.
[[File:Paradox, Next Stop After the Boondocks - John Brunner.png|thumb|PARADOX, NEXT STOP AFTER THE BOONDOCKS / "It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. / "It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. / "So SHUT UP, do you hear me? SHUT UP!" —John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"]]'''''The Shockwave Rider''''' is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.
 
== Excerpts ==
[[File:The Shockwave Rider - set destruction.jpg|thumb|Set-destruction.]]
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"No — yes — no . . . I don't know. But I'm okay." Dropping his arm, he blinked this way, then that. "It just hit me. This is town — yes! But it doesn't feel like it. I simply know it must be, because . . ." He swallowed hard. "Seeing it from the railcar, could you have mistaken this place for anything else?"
 
"Never in a million years. Hmm!" Her eyes rounded in wonder. "That's a hell of a trick, isn't it?"
 
"Yes, and if I didn't realize it was therapeutic I could well be angry. People don't enjoy being fooled, do they?"
 
"Therapeutic?" She frowned. "I don't follow you."
 
"Set-destruction. We use sets constantly instead of seeing what's there — or feeling or tasting it, come to that. We have a set 'town,' another 'city,' another 'village' . . . and we often forget there's a reality the sets were originally based on. We're in too much of a hurry."
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== In the News ==
== In the News ==
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
* [[John Brunner (nonfiction)]]


== External links ==
== External links ==
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider The Shockwave rider] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider The Shockwave rider] @ Wikipedia


== Attribution ==
=== Social media ===


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Latest revision as of 10:07, 21 September 2023

PARADOX, NEXT STOP AFTER THE BOONDOCKS / "It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. / "It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. / "So SHUT UP, do you hear me? SHUT UP!" —John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"

The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.

Excerpts

Set-destruction.

"No — yes — no . . . I don't know. But I'm okay." Dropping his arm, he blinked this way, then that. "It just hit me. This is town — yes! But it doesn't feel like it. I simply know it must be, because . . ." He swallowed hard. "Seeing it from the railcar, could you have mistaken this place for anything else?"

"Never in a million years. Hmm!" Her eyes rounded in wonder. "That's a hell of a trick, isn't it?"

"Yes, and if I didn't realize it was therapeutic I could well be angry. People don't enjoy being fooled, do they?"

"Therapeutic?" She frowned. "I don't follow you."

"Set-destruction. We use sets constantly instead of seeing what's there — or feeling or tasting it, come to that. We have a set 'town,' another 'city,' another 'village' . . . and we often forget there's a reality the sets were originally based on. We're in too much of a hurry."

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (12 September 2022) - Paradox, Next Stop After the Boondocks