The Web: 2027 and
The Web: 2028 are collections of short stories with the web as the theme given to the authors, but, sorry, they are YA.
Shall I state the obvious? HHGTTG.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress does a pretty good job of computer as a character, given the state of computer development at the time it was written.
Tron!
Doesn't 'computer-based' hatch/evolve into 'artificial intelligence'?
I'll add
The Shockwave Rider. A little dated but it did originate a few computer terms in use today.
The Otherland series by Tad Williams, volume 1 is
City of Golden Shadow. If I remember correctly it was about a virtual (second life like) world.
Halting State by Charles Stross. It centre's around a bank robbery in a virtual world (mmorpg). It was pretty good and brought up a good question: could virtual worlds like Second Life and WoW become so prominent that acts committed in those worlds are treated as crimes in the real world?
#10:
Sometimes, but then you're in the realm of robots, usually, and those aren't always necessarily "computer based."
Wow - so many recommendations! I'm impressed =D
I will look for everything that's been mentioned - since I've not read much sci-fi, I might as well try lots and see what I do and don't like.
Thanks so much for the help =D
Machines That Think by isaac asimov,Patricia S warwick and martin h greenberg. It is also called Thinking Machines depending where you live.It is short story collection with contributions by many famous authors with computers as it main theme It was published in the eighties and does not appear to be in print any more. Top class short fiction.
For a quick AI/MMORPG read, try
Daemon.
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