Stories about the computer world!

[tecnowraith]

Does anyone know if there have novels, anime; and other movies and games (besides the matrix and tron) about the world of the computer? I know there is reboot and the new megaman show but nay others?

 

[RangerWickett]

Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson, is a phenomenal book that kicks the ass of The Matrix.

.hack//sign is a strange anime that has an intriguing concept (the characters are all in a virtual reality MMORPG), but is kind of boring in execution.

 

[Dagger75]

Nueromancer by William Gibson. This is where cyberpunk came from. The main character is a hacker.

 

[tecnowraith]

well I am looking for stories where there is no hacking or cyberspace. I am talking about novels where the story,setting and characters is from the point of view a computer program and with in a "computer world".

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Didn't that Chris Carter show "Harsh Realm" take place in some kind of virtual reality?

 

[jonesy]

Didn't that Chris Carter show "Harsh Realm" take place in some kind of virtual reality?

Yup. It was pretty good too. Too bad they cancelled it before it had a chance to do any kind of an ending (not that they even would have, knowing Chris Carter).

 

[KChagga]

Diaspora by Greg Egan is a most excellent book. It stars characters that are all computer programs in a massive computer matrix. It begins right off with the main character just becoming a program and how vis(being computer programs they use different pronouns vis/ver being virtual his and virtual her respectively) sentience came about.
Hopefullly this book blows your mind like it did to everyone else I know who read it.