Barry, Though it's only peripherally related, Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark is a great novel, part of which takes place on the campus of a high-tech firm producing cutting-edge VR technologies. Non-fiction: I'd nominate Stacy Horn's Cyberville. -Paul-Brian On 3/8/03 12:55 PM, "Barry Wellman" <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:

Folks, My apologies for crossposting, but this may be fun for some of you:

I'm the Technology and Community subeditor of the Sage Encyclopedia of Community, 4 vols, due out 6/03.

As the final act in its production, we are compiling a list of popular stuff related to community. I'd dearly love to include a bunch related to the Internet. Some categories; Non Fiction Books (I've already put in Rheingold - Virtual Community, 2d ed), Fictional Books (I've already put in Handmaid's Tale, Snowcrash, Neuromancer), Music, Shows, Films.

If you have any ideas, please send them to me. Remember, no technical stuff and no papers.

Thanks, Barry ___________________________________________________________________

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