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Counterexample: if you know anything about cryptography -- anything at all -- then Dan Brown's earlier book Digital Fortress is downright painful.
by sketerpot 17y ago
Counterexample: if you know anything about cryptography -- anything at all -- then Dan Brown's earlier book Digital Fortress is downright painful.
- trafficlight 17y agoDigital Fortress is so awful, I couldn't even get through the first 10 pages.
- ErrantX 17y agoErr yeh. In retrospect Dan brown isn't as good an example as I'd hoped :-)
- sketerpot 17y agoTry Robert Heinlein; I learned a lot from the books he wrote in the 1950s. And he actually cared about technical details, as far as the science of the time allowed; he spent hours calculating orbits just to get the timing in Space Cadet right.