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The Shockwave Rider
Fiction
A 1975 dystopian SF novel whose hacker hero uses computer skills to evade a surveillance state, and which coined the term 'worm' for a self-propagating network program. Raymond treats it as a near-essential hacker touchstone, saying he nearly placed it in his original cultural-literacy list.
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Eric Raymond
“I almost put Brunner's 'The Shockwave Rider' in my original list.”
Eric Raymond's reply in the comment thread of his essay 'Cultural literacy for hackers' on Armed and Dangerous, agreeing it is canonical for the hacker sensibility.
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