|1-Recommended Reading 1997


                             by Kei/Carnage

Far from finished but here's some recommended reading for you..

TITLE     : The Song Of Phaid The Gambler
AUTHOR    : Mick Farren
PUBLISHER : New English Library 1981
ISBN      : ISBN 0-450-05345-1
NOTES     : Very like The Stainless Steel Rat Series of books

TITLE     : Programming The M68000 2nd Ed
AUTHOR    : Tim King & Brian Knight
PUBLISHER : Addison Wesley 1987
ISBN      : ISBN 0-8053-5550-2
NOTES     : OK for getting started in assembler

TITLE     : BUGGING: A Complete Survey Of Electronic Surveillance Today
AUTHOR    : John Wingfield
PUBLISHER : Robert Hale Ltd 1984
ISBN      : ISBN 0-7090-1742-1
NOTES     : Very technical but informative

TITLE     : Heavy Weather
AUTHOR    : Bruce Sterling
PUBLISHER : 
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Imagine the film TWISTER in NEUROMANCER mode!

TITLE     : Neuromancer: 10th Aniversary Edition
AUTHOR    : William Gibson
PUBLISHER : Harper Collins 1994
ISBN      : 0-00-225232-5
NOTES     : The original book with an overview of what has happened
            since the original was released.

TITLE     : CYBERIA
AUTHOR    : Douglas Rushkoff
PUBLISHER : Flamingo
ISBN      : 0-00-654792-3
NOTES     : A good read for all cyberpunk waanabees.

TITLE     : Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook
AUTHOR    : St.Jude, R.U.Sirius & Bart Nagel
PUBLISHER : Arrow Books 1996
ISBN      : 0-09-9791617
NOTES     : Piss-take of Cyberpunk culture by MONDO 2000 staff. V.Good

TITLE     : Freedom Of Information Handbook
AUTHOR    : David Northmore
PUBLISHER : Bloomsbury 1990
ISBN      : 0-7475-0877-1
NOTES     : Your rights etc..

TITLE     : On The Run
AUTHOR    : Philip Agee
PUBLISHER : Bloomsbury 1987
ISBN      : 0-7475-0135-1
NOTES     : About a guy on the run from the CIA. Tame but interesting.

TITLE     : Big Brother Game (Wiretapping, Surveillance, etc)
AUTHOR    : 
PUBLISHER : French US
ISBN      : 0-8184-0241-5
NOTES     : Tips on gear and techniques used by Big Brother to watch us

TITLE     : The Complete Idiots Pocket Reference To The Internet
AUTHOR    : Neal Goldman
PUBLISHER : Alpha Books 1994
ISBN      : 1-56761-528-7
NOTES     : Dummies guide type book. Good for net newbies

TITLE     : Number Please: History of early London Telephone Exchanges
AUTHOR    : D.Occomore
PUBLISHER : Ian Henry 1995
ISBN      : 0-86025-462-5
NOTES     : History lesson for phone phreaks. Pre-ESS and XBAR.

TITLE     : Computer Related Risks
AUTHOR    : Peter.G.Neumann
PUBLISHER : Addison Wesley 1995
ISBN      : 0-201-55805-X
NOTES     : Interesting stuff on what can happen to computers

TITLE     : The Insider
AUTHOR    : Donald Goddard
PUBLISHER : Arrow Books 1993
ISBN      : 0-09-921181-5
NOTES     : Ex-tiger team NARC tells all.

TITLE     : The Cuckoo's Egg
AUTHOR    : Clifford Stoll
PUBLISHER : Bodley Head Ltd 1989
ISBN      : 0-370-31625-8
NOTES     : Classic book this!

TITLE     : Spectacular Computer Crimes
AUTHOR    : Buck Bloomsbecker
PUBLISHER : Dow-Jones Irwin 1990
ISBN      : 1-55623-256-X
NOTES     : From brute force to remote break ins.. 

TITLE     : The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog 2nd Ed
AUTHOR    : Ed Krol
PUBLISHER : O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN      : 1-56592-063-5
NOTES     : Very comprehensive books with a lot of references

TITLE     : Cheating At Cards
AUTHOR    : Bryan Clough
PUBLISHER : RMDP 1994
ISBN      : 0-907923-28-3
NOTES     : Overview of credit card fraud and techniques.

TITLE     : Telecommunications Primer 3rd Ed
AUTHOR    : G.Langley
PUBLISHER : Pitman 1991
ISBN      : 0-273-03187-2
NOTES     : Popular book for phone phreaks just starting out.

TITLE     : Masters Of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
AUTHOR    : Joshua Quittner & Michelle Slatalla
PUBLISHER : Vintage 1994
ISBN      : 0-09-957681-3
NOTES     : Viewpoint on the LOD-MOD war from the MOD point-of-view

TITLE     : Using Computer Bulletin Boards 3rd Ed
AUTHOR    : John Hedtke
PUBLISHER : MIS Press 1995
ISBN      : 1-55828-391-9
NOTES     : Useful if you want to start a BBS or know how they work

TITLE     : Mona Lisa Overdrive
AUTHOR    : William Gibson
PUBLISHER : Grafton 1989
ISBN      : 0-586-20747-3
NOTES     : 3rd in the Gibson cyberspace series of novels. V.Good

TITLE     : Approaching Zero
AUTHOR    : Bryan Clough & Paul Mungo
PUBLISHER : 
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Hackers review

TITLE     : Beating The System: Hackers, Phreakers & Electronic Spies
AUTHOR    : Owen Bowcott & Sally Hamilton
PUBLISHER : Bloomsbury 1990
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Info on past hackers & phreakers and their lives

TITLE     : Cyberpunk: Outlaws & Hackers On The Computer Frontier
AUTHOR    : Katie Hafner & John Markoff
PUBLISHER : Fourth Estate Ltd 1991
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Well known for it's story on Kevin Mitnick

TITLE     : The Computer Virus Crisis 2nd Ed
AUTHOR    : Philip Fittes, P.Johnston & Martin Kratz
PUBLISHER : Van Nostrand Reinhold 1992
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Info on computer virus attacks on computer systems

TITLE     : The Computer Virus Handbook
AUTHOR    : R.B.Levin
PUBLISHER : Osbourne McGraw-Hill 1990
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Overview of well known computer viruses and their payloads

TITLE     : Computer Viruses
AUTHOR    : Jonathan.L.Mayo
PUBLISHER : Windcrest 1989
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : More info on computer viruses

TITLE     : The New Hackers Dictionary
AUTHOR    : Eric Raymond
PUBLISHER : MIT Press 1991
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Book form of popular internet file.

TITLE     : The Shockwave Rider
AUTHOR    : John Brunner
PUBLISHER : Metheun 1975
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : Most popular cyberpunk book before Neuromancer. V.Good

TITLE     : The Matrix: Computer Networks & Conferencing Systems
AUTHOR    : J.S.Quaterman
PUBLISHER : Digital Press 1990
ISBN      : 1-55558-033-5
NOTES     : Very technical book on world-wide network protocols

TITLE     : Out Of The Inner Circle
AUTHOR    : Bill Landreth
PUBLISHER : Tempus Books 1985
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : More info from inside hacker groups

TITLE     : The International Handbook On Computer Crime
AUTHOR    : Ulrich Sieber
PUBLISHER : John Wiley & Sons 1986
ISBN      : 
NOTES     : From bank fraud to hacking

TITLE     : World Satellite TV & Scrambling Methods 2nd Ed
AUTHOR    : Frank Baylin
PUBLISHER : Baylin 1991
ISBN      : 0-917893-15-8
NOTES     : Technicians Handbook. Good for satellite PAYTV hackers

TITLE     : The Hacker Crackdown
AUTHOR    : Bruce Sterling
PUBLISHER : Viking 1993
ISBN      : 0-670-84900-6
NOTES     : Popular book on hackers and the law

TITLE     : GlobalHead
AUTHOR    : Bruce Sterling
PUBLISHER : Millenium 1994
ISBN      : 0-00-654633-1
NOTES     : Futuristic cyberpunk life

TITLE     : Hackers
AUTHOR    : Steven Levy
PUBLISHER : Penguin 1994
ISBN      : 0-14-023269-9
NOTES     : Well known book on hackers

TITLE     : WetWare
AUTHOR    : Rudy Rucker
PUBLISHER : New English Library 1988
ISBN      : 0-450-49476-4
NOTES     : Futuristic cyberpunk world. Very adult.

TITLE     : CORPSE
AUTHOR    : Mick Farren
PUBLISHER : New English Library 1986
ISBN      : 0-450-05841-7
NOTES     : Stainless Steel Rat type story. V.Good.

TITLE     : The Stainless Steel Rat
AUTHOR    : Harry Harrison
PUBLISHER : Orbit 1994
ISBN      : 1-85723-199-6
NOTES     : Very popular book about a career criminal

TITLE     : Young Rissa
AUTHOR    : F.M.Busby
PUBLISHER : Orbit
ISBN      : 0-7088-8272-2
NOTES     : Like The Stainless Steel Rat but with a female star


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