Fiction about the Internet

Beat me to it

Read Joshua Cohen

This

I want her to puke in my mouth like a bird mother feeding her young

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I tried

zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/the-gig-economy/

this ones pretty good

The Internet and the ultra-connectedness of modernity is the worst thing that ever happened to both the world and fiction.

You can't have this discussion without mentioning Goon Squad.

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Yes, and who is writing about it?

Internet Dreams is pretty good

Shits been out of print forever and it costs $80

I think theMystery.doc by Michael McIntosh has a lot of exploration of the internet, haven't read it though

>Raphael Carter.
"Raphael Carter was one of the earliest bloggers, maintaining the Honeyguide Web Log from 1998 to 2002, but despite this, it can be remarkably difficult to find personal information about zir. (Carter doesn’t have a current public online presence, but in the early 2000s, zie was using zie / zir / zirs / zirself pronouns.)"

I was interested up until 'zir'

I'll probably read it anyway

joshua cohen

This actually has more understanding of the Internet than Book of Numbers

I'm writing one right now. It's in hypertext + interactive elements.
Any suggestion what do you wish to see in that type of fiction and what not?

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Published online then and not book form?

I'll be honest. Lain was pretty good and some of the predictions it made almost 20 years ago are remarkably accurate. That being said, it has got to be one of the most overrated anime in existence. Some people who are way too into cyberpunk act like it's the best, deepest, most prophetic piece of media of all time.

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>most prophetic piece of media of all time.
That honour belongs to Texhnolyze.

Circuits of the Wind is a really big novel about the early Internet. Love the 80's and 90's feels.

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Yes. Online or as .exe. Though hypertext literature sometimes exist in printed book form (The Infinite Deadlock), I don't think it's necessary anymore

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Too bad it's unwatchable

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Thanks user, sample is promising.

Another one I never heard of but am going to read. Can't yet tell if it's a great book or another House of Leaves.

agreed

I posted the current version of what I'm working on on lit a while back under this trip. It's written in the language of the internet, words are links and links are words. Nobody bothered to "read" it to see how ahead of its time it is, maybe you will.

Homestuck

but house of leaves was a lot of fun

I was vaguely disappointed the book wasn't about somethingawful desu senpai.

Yea Forums.org/lit

Headcrash by Bruce Bethke is OK - but Stealing the Network is a keystone fictional work for anyone interested in electronics.

Is there literally any book worth reading where the characters grew up on the internet(aka literally me)

Glad to see COTW mentioned here. It's a wonderful, if obscure book and captures so much of the early net.

> where the characters grew up on the internet
That's literally the plot of Circuits of the Wind. But it an X'er pov, not gen Y/Z.

This book is terrible, and I hope you are ashamed for promoting it.

desu there is one chapter, "safari" that is decent.

>(((Cohen)))
No

The internet is an aesthetic void. It’s amazing something can be so overbearing in our lives while also holding absolutely no value to our conscious minds. Just a consideration, when is the last time you had a dream where the internet made an appearance?

It's on libgen. Can you not pirate?

why do you think is terrible?

do you know the password?

That's an interesting point. I will be thinking about this...

The Circle

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No! Is it just me or is Eggers 100% out of touch

Snow Crash

It's not just you. He's almost as bad as Joshua Cohen, really.

Boxer, Beetle
Internet fiction from the early oughts

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dont actually do this

This book is widely regarded as terrible.

and for good reason!

Here is the link to the viewable version
zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/

DFW natch

No one mentioned Bleeding Edge wtf is wrong with Yea Forums

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Sad

Is that even real? I thought it was a troll

Who is the author?

OP: What about Justin Hall? links.net

overrated and overhyped anime, so boring

I'll read it, thank you, have a nice day.

I don't know, links.net is a long many-years blog, but not really a book. Certainly not fiction.

Found a free Kindle, will read.

Never heard of it. Will look into it. Thank you.

I've had multiple dreams about browsing Yea Forums. Text and images scrolling down through a blue board, some of it looks sensible but it moves too fast for me to read it.

This is exactly the sort of experience I would like to read in literature.
I also wonder if the offline world (physical space) has become more generic since the rise of online space.

A book you may like is "Entropy of Imagination" and its precursor book "The Spiraling Web" although you should read Entropy of Imagination first.

>Entropy of Imagination
Plot, for those interested: "Thousands of years ago, before he was trapped on an isolated computer system, Flatline was programmed to conquer the world. Today he's escaped back to the World Wide Web, where he hopes to find his way back to the real world. Except the World Wide Web has forgotten there ever was a real world."

Deep cut. This was good.

Pynchon - Bleeding Edge (2013)

why the fuck all the amazon reviews are written by christcucks? are you tricking me nigga?

my money is on typical amazon glitch. doesn't the title come from the bible?

user, lets talk more about this
tell me about your project
im very interested in hyperfiction/netprov/interactivity/computer aesthetics

Same. Does anyone here remember The Hypertexts?

Didn't Franzen or Rick Moody include the Internet in their books

WHY DOES THIS KEEP GETTING PAGE 10 BUMPED. The OP image is so stupid looking like what the hell kind of advertisement was this even for

Me.

Holy fuck, I thought I was the only one. Imagine what information might be contained in those dream posts.

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Go back to r-e-d-d-i-t, k?

Anything published, user?

I've been working on a novel about a Doomer type guy who lives alone and spends his time immersed in the internet trying to soak in as much esoteric / forbidden knowledge as possible. I want to write something that evokes that feeling of watching gore videos at 4AM. He buys a gun. Some more stuff happens. Mexican cartel maybe gets involved.

I'm lazy though so it probably will be a year before I finish the second draft.

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Agreed, current Yea Forums is full of babbies that cant read

>look Mom I'm on 4channel!
guaranteed newfag

no, whats that?

Long-running hypertext poetry journal, thehypertexts.com

Days like today I wish the Internet had burned down

sounds interesting. how could I know such book exists without browsing Yea Forums every day?

Oh thank you, I 'm glad someone finally tried out my recommendation. I had a weird ass experience reading that book if anyone wants to hear it.

Yes, please tell. I was the one you initially responded to. I've made an interlibrary loan to read it.

Ok, so I was on a flight that was crossing the Atlantic which was about 7-8 hours long. Pretty much as I was reading the book I tuned out the outside world entirely and used what felt like a majority of my brain on imagining what was happening inside the book. I know it is cliche but I really did feel like I was literally experiencing and inhabiting the story. I felt this to such an extent that when I left the plane and was sitting in the airport it had felt like I had woken from a dream. It even had that quality of slowly losing the feeling of the dream after a short time waking up.

I attribute this to being very sleep deprived, jet lag, the constant drone and darkness of the plane, and the music I was listening to combing to put me in some sort of hypnotic/dreamlike state. It was a very weird experience

Sometimes a very well written novel will do that to me.

It's invariably cringe.

That's good it happens to you often. It was the first time I had felt that to that extent and I was amazed by it.

these, plus pic related
read it, it's so goddamn awful that I can hardly put it into words

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I tried to read Fanged, got the PDF which someone posted on here. Honestly thought it was super cringe.

I know but the cover is so pretty i want it on my shelf

What's it about?

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain

>1998

>normies colonzie teh interwebs
the book

Books about non-normies are better

The 90s seem like a much more creative time wrt Internet topics

>... wrt...

DO NOT DO THAT.

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Ok sorry I wont.
But in the 90s the internet was new and it seemed more exciting. Then it took social media/smartphones to up the game. So now in the past 10 years there have been more online culture type writings, but I think the ones of the 90s had more excitement to them.

Why do you guys flock to overdone photos like this one? She just looks like a piece of plastic at this point.

GENESIS, AND ENTHUSIASM, ARE MUTUALLY INEXTRICABLE; IN POSTMATURITY EVERYTHING IS LETHARGY, BANALITY, MELANCHOLY.

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what was wrong with the book, i was writing a story related to internet dystopia values albeit a little discouraging when you find that things have already been done. where did this book fail verse where did the others succeed?

Because you can tell that Eggers wasn't there. He doesn't get it. It falls flat. I would say that's the case with ALL of his work, but this book especially felt so fake - it wasn't genuine. Some of the other books talked about on this thread were really there, really good - and you can feel if when you read them. There are some great books here. And to them I would add George Saunders.

Good book but not about the Internet.
Bleeding Edge, however...

Douglas Rushkoff's Cyberia is a more exciting book than any nonfiction book about the internet since 2000. It was written in 1994 so that explains it - the enthusiasm of genesis.

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3ammagazine.com/3am/digital-native-interview-b-r-yeager-amygdalatropolis/
So you know what your getting into

yes it is

Well sir, not everyone can afford to live in communities like Stepford.

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Is this book actually any good? Can't tell from the sample. Definitely an underground writer either way.

I CONCUR.

I WONDER WHO WILL WRITE RE US.

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Now this is what I call cosmic horror

>tfw your gf melts on a hot day

I feel like people can't read big books anymore because of the Internet.