Wyrm

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DOOMSDAY BUG As the new millennium approaches, cults, sects, and crackpot prophets flood the worldwide media. But for Michael Arcangelo none of their catastrophe theories are more frightening than the Goodknight virus. Michael suspects it is the work of a mysterious programming genius, who designed it to create a computer role-playing game so real it can kill. Now Michael and his team of techno-wizards must descend into a harrowing and convoluted world of reality and fantasy. But what they discover is even worse than they could have ever imagined. For the, so-called game is already out of hand, the virus has taken over the Internet,
harnessing the power of the millennial frenzy already sweeping the world. And if they don't find and defeat the twisted mastermind responsible, humanity will wake from its worst nightmare to find the end of the world is truly here.
"Wyrm is a hugely enjoyable book. All hackers should, have this book; so should anyone interested in artificial... Tovább

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DOOMSDAY BUG As the new millennium approaches, cults, sects, and crackpot prophets flood the worldwide media. But for Michael Arcangelo none of their catastrophe theories are more frightening than the Goodknight virus. Michael suspects it is the work of a mysterious programming genius, who designed it to create a computer role-playing game so real it can kill. Now Michael and his team of techno-wizards must descend into a harrowing and convoluted world of reality and fantasy. But what they discover is even worse than they could have ever imagined. For the, so-called game is already out of hand, the virus has taken over the Internet,
harnessing the power of the millennial frenzy already sweeping the world. And if they don't find and defeat the twisted mastermind responsible, humanity will wake from its worst nightmare to find the end of the world is truly here.
"Wyrm is a hugely enjoyable book. All hackers should, have this book; so should anyone interested in artificial intelligence, the Internet, computer viruses, role-playing games, mythology, science fiction J_ewis Carroll, or Monty Python. Anyone not in this group has my sympathies." --Gharles Sheffield, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow
"A plot so wicked and intricate it should be illegal
Very, very cool."
—Sci-Fi Universe
"The real thing, [a] straight-bracing science fiction of ideas [that] has the feel and delivers the jolt of a good fantasy quest." —The Orlando Sentinel Vissza