![]() ![]() Stephenson centers on Richard Forthrast, the founder and owner of the Fortune 500 company that manages T’Rain, an MMORPG. ![]() If you are a cybersecurity professional, you will not learn anything new here, but you will appreciate a ripping good story told within the boundaries of the cybersecurity community you know. While it is a wildly imaginative story, the details are real and correct. It is classic Stephenson, and not quite as dense as some of his other works. ![]() The novel has everything that a cyber thriller needs: Chinese hackers, Russian mafia, cyber crime, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), hacking culture, and guns. Here is a third: a high-octane, straight-up cyber thriller that elevates the genre in the process. I’ve already reviewed two Neal Stephenson works, Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, for inclusion in the Canon. ![]()
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