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azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-17 04:47 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-17 04:47 pm
hackers and other mythical life-forms
Gods.
I was just reading the book The Great Rip-Off, by Lavinia Harris.
General plot:
Our heroine, a disarmingly female type, about fourteen or fifteen, with a disarmingly male name, is recruited by her genius father to work on a top-security computer telepathy project because she has both the computer skills and the telepathy to carry it off. She makes a bad beginning with another young computer genius new to town, but they are soon forced to work together. He has taken on a top-security project too large and difficult to handle alone, and takes her into his confidence. She recognizes stolen data from her father's project. The two young computer experts must enlist the help of the researchers and track down the miscreant -- possibly from among their friends at school!
It's very, very, *very* eighties. But Sidney (the girl) has guts, and finally tells her basketball hero boyfriend-person to stop treating her like his property and get a life. And ... oh gods.
The other computer genius, the guy -- he moves like a cat, at first impression he's a prickly prick, upon getting to know him better he's got this awesomely evil sense of humor -- he fences and knows other martial arts ...
At the point where Joshua is rigging the fire alarms, I got an instant flash to Darkside.
Did I mention that this was one of the pivotal books in programming my absolute adoration for computer scientists?
I was just reading the book The Great Rip-Off, by Lavinia Harris.
General plot:
Our heroine, a disarmingly female type, about fourteen or fifteen, with a disarmingly male name, is recruited by her genius father to work on a top-security computer telepathy project because she has both the computer skills and the telepathy to carry it off. She makes a bad beginning with another young computer genius new to town, but they are soon forced to work together. He has taken on a top-security project too large and difficult to handle alone, and takes her into his confidence. She recognizes stolen data from her father's project. The two young computer experts must enlist the help of the researchers and track down the miscreant -- possibly from among their friends at school!
It's very, very, *very* eighties. But Sidney (the girl) has guts, and finally tells her basketball hero boyfriend-person to stop treating her like his property and get a life. And ... oh gods.
The other computer genius, the guy -- he moves like a cat, at first impression he's a prickly prick, upon getting to know him better he's got this awesomely evil sense of humor -- he fences and knows other martial arts ...
At the point where Joshua is rigging the fire alarms, I got an instant flash to Darkside.
Did I mention that this was one of the pivotal books in programming my absolute adoration for computer scientists?