- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Del Rey; Auflage: Reissue (12. Oktober 1984)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0345324315
- ISBN-13: 978-0345324313
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,7 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (16 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 102.188 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This book has always been popular with the techy-geeky crowd, but, since it was first published in the '70s, it missed out on the cyberpunk revolution of the '80s. It's too bad, because this is a compelling story of a future world tied together by a universal data network, a world that could be our tomorrow. It's a tense place filled with information overload and corporate domination, and nearly everything is known about everybody. Except Nickie Haflinger, a prodigy whose talents allow him to switch identities with a phone call. Nickie plans to change the world, if only he can keep from getting caught.
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A Science Fiction Book Club Selection
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."
-- Alvin Toffler
Author of Future Shock
He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.
Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.
He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."
-- Alvin Toffler
Author of Future Shock
He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.
Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.
He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
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Don't believe the Hype! There are people out there who would have you believe that the concepts of cyberspace, a networked society and sentient computers came out of their writing efforts in the 80s and 90s. Not true! This book along with Brunner's other titles really started it all. Or should I say predicted it all... spot on. In fact, Shockwave rider published in 1975 predicted the fusion of TV, PSTH, Internet and the banking system into one cyber-mass that he prophetically refers to simply as The Net. Read it and see the future converge into the present before your eyes.
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The late Mr. Brunner predated the cyberpunk genre in this and it's two companion volumes (The Sheep Look Up and Stand On Zanzibar). Unfortunately for the cyberpunks, John Brunner was a far better writer than any of them, and his vision more far-reaching. The plots of all three of these books almost have to be absorbed rather than analyzed to get the full effect (show, don't tell), and each has at least one character that really stands out, in this case Nicky Halflinger. I still have the hardcover copy that I stole from the library, so I wouldn't have to keep buying it like I did Stand On Zanzibar, which was on its second go-round with me. Buy it, steal it, get it at the library, whatever. Just read it.
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I'm convinced after reading "Sheep's Looking Up" and "Shockwave Rider" that Brunner was allowed to have an un-blurred look on the cosmic hard disk. The precision of each detail written more than 30 years ago, most of it already reality to us today, is beyond any extrapolation explanation. Also the high number of details which are described so exactly, can't be explained with "just by chance". Just one detail - for me the most impressive - or Shock-ing example, can be very directly linked to the September 11th events. He wrote about 1972 "The palisade of thousand-meter towers around Mid-Continental Airport had two gaps in it, memorializing.....the crash sites of two veetol airliners". Was this a just another Brunner vision or who took this writing as the story board for the events? A Sheik read SF?
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The one true visionary of Cyberspace and The Net
Don't believe the Hype! There are people out there who would have you believe that the concepts of cyberspace, a networked society and sentient computers came out of their writing... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 2000 von Geoff White
A very nearly prophetic book--a sign of our modern times
This book is one of the most daring efforts to put the social economic views presented by Alvin Toffler in _Future Shock_ into a real human perspective. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. November 1999 veröffentlicht
One of my favorite books.
I loved everything except the ease with which the good guys seemed to protect themselves. Other than that, this book was brilliant, and I'm looking forward to reading more of the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
May well be the WORST book I've ever read
Although Brunner foresees the influence of a national "datanet" and the book sports a sort of hacker/phreaker hero, you can tell the author quickly made the story up as... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
You think Y2K is a problem?
There is so much to be said about The Shockwave Rider, that it can leave one speechless. I read it for school, and 90 pages in, was ready to throw it across the room. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. März 1999 veröffentlicht
One of the best books I have ever read
Shockwave Rider tells a fantastic story of a none-too-distant future, where the internet can be accessed from a normal public phone, but has become the main instrument of social... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
Phenomenal.
I think I was 10 years old when I first read this book. Every summer after that, I would search for it in the library again. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
This book is a must read for people into dark future SF.
This was an excellent read, Brunner created a world much like our own could be. A world where the rich are rich and the poor fight for what food they can get. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
The book that turned me into a computer nerd
There's not much to add to the reviews above... Brunner foresaw so many things so long ago, one wonders how he did it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Januar 1998 veröffentlicht
Classic Cyberspace fiction
Shockwave Rider is a book before its time - written in the early 1970s but still providing a vision for the future of computer networks today. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. November 1997 von mlshore@xtra.co.nz
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