ok that went down well the, other likes of mine include anything by
richard powers, this guy is simply the most intelligent and detailed author i have ever had the pleasure of reading, for computer si fi try
plowing the dark
Synopsis
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of working with the Cavern's cutting-edge technology. As Cold War empires collapse and the Berlin Wall falls, she retreats into the cyber-realities she has been hired to create. In Beirut, English teacher Taimur Martin is held in solitary confinement by Islamic fundamentalists, where he must keep his mind whole by the force of his memory alone. What can possibly joint two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these two people unwittingly build in common, where the strands of this wildly inventive novel coalesce into one.
all his other books i've read are excellent.
a good bio is the
bang bang cluba true story of photo journalists in south arfica in the early 90s, brilliant again, gives an insight to both the hard and frightening work they do and the pressure and emotional stress of having your work dictate millions of peoples views on a subject
