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Reddit mentions of Reamde: A Novel

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Reamde: A Novel
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Found 15 comments on Reamde: A Novel:

u/Danadin · 7 pointsr/noveltranslations

Yeah Ready Player One is one of the biggest Sci - Fi novels written in the last decade. This is legit stuff but I'm usually more optimistic when I see a book is being made into a TV series or mini-series.

For another MMO related mainstream SCIFI novel, check out ReamDe by Neal Stephenson. You can probably find Ready Player One and ReamDe in your local library if you live in the USA.

u/Capissen38 · 7 pointsr/sysadmin

You should check out REAMDE! It nailed the whole ransomware phenomenon before it was on most folks' radars. Pretty incredible, and more fun and less technical than a lot of Stephenson's work.

u/FeepingCreature · 6 pointsr/programming

Based on your comment, I have determined you may be interested in REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

u/My_soliloquy · 5 pointsr/Futurology

Agreed, except we really aren't overpopulated. The entire world population could live in individual 1000 sq ft apartments inside the state of Texas (so a family of 4 in a 4000 sq ft place); that leaves a whole lot of unoccupied space around the rest of the world, even if some of it was devoted to food and energy production. The current estimates are a peak population around 9 billion, before it levels off and may even reduce, due to the falling birth rate in modern countries.

The real problem is resource scarcity; or more specifically, people don't live within their local ecosystems. And some of the very wealthy capitalize on this for their own benefit (and have for centuries), to the detriment of others not in their immediate nepotistic circle.

I think a reputation based economy, after resource "scarcity" has been solved; is the real direction humanity should, and will go. It's projecting waaay into the future, but like The Culture.

A closer idea on the possibilities of how "virtual reality" will incorporate our reputations into our daily interactions and society are in two recent books, REAMDE and Ready Player One.

u/AttackTribble · 2 pointsr/scifi

Don't get me wrong, he's talented and I've never failed to get through one of his books (I'm looking at you Stephenson - odd, I usually love his novels but that I could not get through). I do find myself thinking "Oh, get on with it. Let's have some more story already" quite often.

u/jillredhand · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

You're doing this wrong. If you approach books as a task for self-edification that you view as a duty, you're going to hate it. Read whatever you want, for entertainment. Read funnystuff. Read thrillers. Read fantasy. Read weird science fiction. Heck, read history, economics, and science.

TL;DR: Read whatever the hell you feel like, and I guarantee you you will feel better about yourself than you would have by forcing yourself through Ulysses or War and Peace.

u/mrfunktastic · 2 pointsr/movies

REAMDE is is an extremely enjoyable experience

u/stackedmidgets · 1 pointr/Anarcho_Capitalism

Would be really interested in a game that plagiarizes the economic system in Reamde, which was otherwise a mediocre novel: http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-A-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062191497

Basically all money and other resources need to be 'mined' in-game first, like Bitcoin, before it exists. There's a finite (but large) amount of resources in the world. There's no need to spawn players with money if they have some kind of capability that other players might find useful.

u/MunsterDeLag · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

My goal for the year is to read 50 page a day. I've been on or ahead of pace for every day except two so far this year. I go through books quite quickly and I'm itching to read a long book. May I offer Reamde? I read his Anathem this year already. It is one of the few long books I've read that held my interest. It has renewed my faith in reading longer novels. Sadly, it is not much cheaper used.

If I may, the next book I would like to read is the sequel in the Thursday Next series. Just finished the first and I can't wait to start the second. This is another rarity as I generally dislike series. This book can be purchased much cheaper used ;)

u/alephnul · 1 pointr/technology

I'm 63 years old, and I was involved in the Internet before Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW. My son is currently a PhD candidate in Comp Sci, and will go to work for Google next spring. I have some familiarity with the Internet. Let me tell you a couple of things about it. First, it can't be "cleaned up". Second, it shouldn't be "cleaned up".

By all means learn security. Learn how to keep people's data safe. That is a skill that will be in great demand from here on out. Forget about this whole "justice" thing though. There is no justice. There are just people who don't want to get fucked over, and people who want to fuck them over.

Addendum: If you haven't already, you should read Reamde.

u/CannibalAngel · 1 pointr/Wishlist

Reamde by Neal Stephenson link



A young man steal credit card numbers for the mob. The middle-man in the deal got his computer hijacked by a virus relating to an insanely popular MMO that the yourn man's girlfirend's uncle owns and develops. They then have to track down the hacker to get the computer virus removed to save them from the mob.



It is a really interesting book and a great, fun read.

u/ElliTree · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

I'm going to throw in REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

u/lawstudent2 · 1 pointr/Cooking

Ream.de by Neal Stephenson. My favorite living sci fi author. It’s not his best ( I preferred Snow crash, cryptonomicon, anathem, seven eves and the baroque cycle, and put this on par with Diamond Age and Rise and Fll of Dodo (which he co-authored)), but it is very very good, and one of the few with no true “sci-fi” elements (as in, it takes place today and there is nothing supernatural and all technology in the book exists and is in use). It’s a crazy story involving a crypto virus, the Russian mob, and terrorists - I won’t say more because that would be giving it away. If you like techno thrillers, I recommend it highly. Even though it is among my “least favorite” of his works, we are talking about literally my number 1 favorite living writer. Ream.de is better than all Tom Clancy novels combined - and I’ve read a ton of those - he basically slam dunked the entire genre in a single book and then moved on. For any other author it could easily be a fitting magnum opus, but so much of the stuff Stephenson has written is so insanely creative, compelling, mind blowing and expertlt crafted - I mean how many people can keep you on the edge of your seat for 900 pages of a story about a cryptolocker virus? That’s ream.de, and like I said, it’s among his less compelling works. His first major novel, Snow Crash, is on par with neuromancer as an all time sci-fi greatest hit. It’s “cheesy” but it is so much fun and alarmingly - alarmingly - prescient.

Anyway, yeah. He is good.

u/aperlscript · 1 pointr/Seattle

While it wasn't Seattle-centric, Neal Stephenson's Reamde had a scene or two in Seattle. Some of the other locations in the book are in British Columbia and the wilderness between BC and Seattle.

u/bentripin · -1 pointsr/bestof

when truth stranger than fiction