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# sounds like a v.Clever man :p
I am starting my course at UnI in CS after this GAP year I am taking.... Really looking forward to it.... should learn lots of interesting things...

Think I might get some books bout turing from the library :P tnx..
(lostpixel, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:40, archived)
# Read the real history....
...but also read Neal Stephenson's wonderful wonderful novel "The Cryptonomicon", which is fiction, but has some real people in, including Turing. I won't say any more - don't want to spoil it. It will blow you away.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:42, archived)
# If you're into computer-related sci-fi,
Vernor Vinge has also written a novel called A Fire Upon The Deep, which is also mind-bogglingly good.
(Indole Ring, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:48, archived)
# also noted...
thanky!
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:49, archived)
# hehe tnx
I was trying to think of some more authors to read.... just been re-reading some Arthur C Clarke - The city and the stars :P..
(lostpixel, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:49, archived)
# read the Cryptonomicon ASAP!!!
I can't recommend it highly enough. Gripping, ambitious, wide-ranging, action-packed, but all about big big ideas. Fucking awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:51, archived)
# lol
goes to library and nocks down doors :P
(lostpixel, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:53, archived)
# Seconded!
It's a great book.

Another interesting novel with Turing in it is Enigma by Robert Harris. It's set in Bletchley Park at the height of the U-boat war.
(Indole Ring, Sun 17 Nov 2002, 0:56, archived)