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The Shockwave Rider
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author
John Brunner
Cover artist
Creston Ely
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication date
1975
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages
288
ISBN
0-06-010559-3
OCLC
1093694
Dewey Decimal
823/.9/14
LC Class
PZ4.B89 Sj3 PR6052.R8
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.[1][2] It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool,[3] perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.
^"The Evolution of Cyberpunk", Nick Ravo and Eric Nash, The New York Times, 8 August 1993. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
^Craig E. Engler (1997). "The Shockwave Rider". Classic Sci-Fi Reviews. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
^"Delphi Pool", Technovelgy.com. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
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