I have a question for you both:  what narratives have you ever read (or haven't read, but are aware of) that provided an urgent sense of (let's call it) the outlaw culture of the cyber-world, and/or the transformative nature and/or the emerging / changing culture of the world (of security, of information, etc etc).

Here are a few I've come up with.  Your task:  A) give me your quick sense of these books, if you have any thoughts whatsoever, even just impressions; and B) add other titles that come to mind.  Publishers always want help thinking about examples of other books that are remotely similar...


Clifford Stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG (years and years ago)

Kevin Mitnick's new book (have you looked at that?), which is a New York Times bestseller right now

Kevin Poulsen's KINGPIN

BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE by Ben Mezrich

THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich

GOOGLED: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta

THE LONG TAIL by Chris Anderson

Anything else occur to you?  Please toss 'em out.



P.S.  Stephen, on Tuesday can you run Bookscan numbers on all these?  Thanks.




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Dan Conaway
Literary Agent
Writers House