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posted by martyb on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:19PM   Printer-friendly
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February: Fiasco by Stanisław Lem
March: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor

Discuss Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson in the comments below.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1966:

The book popularized the acronym TANSTAAFL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations credits this novel with the first printed appearance of the phrase "There's no free lunch", although the phrase and its abbreviation considerably predate the novel.

The virtual assistant Mycroft is named after a computer system from the novel.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @06:19AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @06:19AM (#782690)

    Rescuing Adam Selene was part of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Pixel (the cat) was not prominently featured in spite of the title.
    The rescue comes up just as tangentially in To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

    I can't speak to The Number of the Beast as I have not yet read it.

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  • (Score: 2) by RedBear on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:01AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:01AM (#782698)

    Oh, that’s right. I was trying to remember the title of that other closely related book. My mistake. I guess it’s been too long.

    Number of the Beast is a cute sci-fi adventure, and far less of a downer than things like Glory Road or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I highly recommend it if you ever liked anything by Heinlein.

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