[PLUG] Charlie Stross at Powells Thursday at 7
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at kl-ic.com
Thu Oct 11 16:02:07 UTC 2007
Charlie Stross, author of fine open-source related science fiction,
will be signing books tonight 7PM at Powells main store. There may
or may not be an afters - Stross has a 5am flight to SF tomorrow.
I am currently finishing his latest novel, "Halting State". The
story involves a bank robbery in an online role-playing game. One
of the protagonists is a Python-using game hacker. No code samples
so far, sigh. "grep" and "ping" figure prominently. Minor characters
wearing tshirts saying "traceroute is my bitch". A little dense with
Scottish slang and jargon (Google is both referred to in the book,
and useful for decyphering it), but twisty and fun.
Keith
--
Keith Lofstrom keithl at keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993
KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
More information about the PLUG
mailing list