Hackers (anthology)
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| Author | Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthology series |
| Genre | Science fiction anthology |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
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1996 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp |
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| OCLC | 35595857 |
| Preceded by | Dinosaurs II |
| Followed by | Timegates |
Hackers is an anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in 1996. It contains stories by noted science fiction and cyberpunk writers of the late 1980s and early 1990s about hackers.
This story, written by William Gibson, was first published in Omni in July, 1982. It tells the story of two hackers who hack systems for profit. The two main characters are Bobby Quine who specializes in software and Automatic Jack whose field is hardware. A third character in the story is Rikki, a girl with whom Bobby becomes infatuated and for whom he wants to hit it big. Automatic Jack acquires a piece of Russian hacking software that is very sophisticated and hard to trace. The rest of the story unfolds with Bobby deciding to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal called Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Automatic Jack reluctantly agreeing to help. The break-in is ultimately successful, but Rikki decides to leave the group and go to Hollywood, to the grief of Quine and Jack who have grown to love her.
One line from this story – "... the street finds its own uses for things" – has become a widely quoted aphorism for describing the sometimes unexpected uses to which users can put technologies (for example, hip-hop DJs' reinvention of the turntable, which transformed turntables from a medium of playback into one of production). Bobby Quine is mentioned in Neuromancer as one of the mentors of the protagonist. The Finn, a recurring character in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of novels, makes his first appearance in this story as a minor figure. The events of the story are referenced in Count Zero, the second entry of the Sprawl trilogy.
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