| Author | Neal Stephenson |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | William Morrow (US) Atlantic Books (UK) |
| September 20, 2011[1] | |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 1056 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-197796-1 |
| OCLC | 703206576 |
| 813/.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.T3868 R43 2011 |
| Followed by | Fall; or, Dodge in Hell |
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Reamde is a technothriller novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. Topics covered range from online activities including gold farming and social networking to the criminal methods of the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists.

Authors: Daniel Hopkins, Gary King, Matthew Knowles, Steven Melendez The ReadMe software package for R takes as input a set of text documents (such as speeches, blog posts, newspaper articles, judicial opinions, movie reviews, etc.), a categorization scheme chosen by the user (e.g., ordered positive to negative sentiment ratings, unordered policy topics, or any other mutually exclusive. Your readme should speak to the following audiences: Users that just want to run your code; Developers that want to build and test your code. Developers are also users. Contributors that want to submit changes to your code. Contributors are both developers and users. Write your readme in Markdown instead of plain text. Markdown makes it easy to. The following components and template are based on the input of many who contributed to the discussion 'Create a README.txt template'. For the sake of having a fleshed-out example, we're using some sample text. Most of it comes from the Administration menu module's README.txt. Table of contents TOCs are optional but appreciated for lengthy README files.
Plot summary[edit]
Zula Forthrast, an adopted Eritrean, is given a job by her billionaire uncle, Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast, at his company which runs an MMORPG called 'T'Rain', which has made Richard rich and famous. Zula and her boyfriend, Peter, visit Richard's cat-skiing resort. Desperate for money, Peter sells a database of stolen credit card numbers to a shady contact, who is in fact working for the Russian mob. The transaction inadvertently results in a T'Rain-based ransomwarevirus infecting the contact's laptop and rendering the only copy of the database useless. Ivanov, a senior gangster behind the deal, tracks Peter down and coerces him and Zula to help him find the virus creators in Xiamen, China.
Upon arriving in China, Peter, Zula, and Sokolov (a former Spetsnaz security consultant hired by Ivanov), locate the virus creators’ apartment. The Russian team prepares to raid the apartment, only to be misdirected by Zula into a random apartment, which coincidentally happens to house Islamicterrorists preparing to bomb an international conference soon to take place in the city. In the subsequent gun battle, Ivanov kills Peter, and Abdallah Jones, the head of the Islamist cell, kills Ivanov. The hackers flee the building as a fire sets off the stored explosives and causes it to collapse. Jones flees with Zula as his hostage. Olivia Halifax-Lin, an MI6 agent posted to Xiamen to manage surveillance on Jones, meets Sokolov during his escape from the building, and the two become romantically involved while in hiding.
Jones and Zula covertly fly from China into the Canadian wilderness and move south toward the US border. Jones plans to use Zula to force Richard to help him cross the border using a secret smuggling route known to Richard. Meanwhile, Sokolov is separated from Olivia and narrowly escapes from Xiamen by sea, eventually entering the US in pursuit of Jones. Olivia is reassigned by MI6 to locate Jones in cooperation with the CIA but suspects that both agencies' traditional approaches are inadequate for the task. Olivia and Sokolov reunite and travel to the US-Canada border independently based on her intuition.
Eventually, all of the main characters converge on Richard's ski resort and its US-side counterpart, where Richard's brothers live with a community of Christian isolationists and heavily armed Second Amendment fanatics. The terrorists camp in a location near the resort and inform Richard of their hostage, forcing him to lead them into the US while a small team detonates a suicide bomb near a border crossing as a distraction. After being used as bait, Zula manages to escape and heads out to rescue her uncle. Meanwhile, US-based terrorist cells converge on the community from the south, and protagonists and terrorists end up battling in a massive gunfight. In the end, the terrorists are stopped, and Richard kills Jones.
Characters[edit]

- Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast, a former marijuana smuggler who launched and still oversees a successful gaming company and runs a cat skiing lodge near the border crossing of his old smuggling route.
- Zula Forthrast, a 25-year-old Eritrean adoptee educated in geology and programming who works for her Uncle Richard's gaming company and was dating Peter before becoming a highly resourceful kidnapping victim twice over.
- Peter Curtis, a computer security consultant and boyfriend of Zula until he involves her in his identity theft and sales, leading to their kidnapping and his later murder by Ivanov in Xiamen.
- Wallace, a Canadian-based Scottish money manager and criminal working for Ivanov and a T'Rain player whose computer and backup system are infected with Reamde. It is implied that he is murdered early on for his failure.
- Ivanov, a Russian mobster who may have started to go insane after several ministrokes and continuing high blood pressure, entering into several risky endeavors with Wallace, culminating in his desire to go out in a blaze of glory trying to recover the funds in China, where he is shot by Abdallah Jones.
- Csongor Takács, a 25-year-old freelance Hungarian computer security consultant and sysadmin working for Ivanov. He falls in love with Zula and, like the Russians, is disgusted with Peter's seeming indifference to his own girlfriend.
- Abdallah Jones, a Welsh-born Muslim-convert terrorist affiliated with Al-Qaeda, jihadists in Pakistan, and other Sunni cells. Distracted by the sight of a cougar and thus shot in the head by Richard Forthrast.
- Marlon, a Chinese hacker and leader of the group who created the Reamde virus. Zula saves his life, and he becomes friends with Csongor and Yuxia on an unexpected sailboat voyage.
- Qian Yuxia, a Hakka guide and part-time tea saleswoman. She becomes friends with Zula in Xiamen, at first through selling tea, then learning each other's body language. When Yuxia sees Zula crying in distress that Zula has gotten Yuxia into trouble, Yuxia will do anything to become an ally.
- Olivia Halifax-Lin, a British citizen of Chinese descent and an MI6 operative tasked with finding Abdallah Jones in China.
- Sokolov, a former Russian military and Spetsnaz man who now acts as a security consultant operating out of Toronto, hired by Ivanov to find the Chinese virus writers. Highly trained in military arts, he ends up defending Zula and romantically involved with Olivia.
- Seamus Costello, a CIA operative based in the Philippines who is obsessed with neutralizing Abdallah Jones. Also an avid T'Rain player.
- John Forthrast, the eldest Forthrast brother who lost both legs in Vietnam and took parental responsibility for Zula after his sister Patricia died. Beaten to death by Abdallah Jones.
- Jacob 'Jake' Forthrast, the youngest Forthrast brother, a Christian isolationist who lives with his immediate family and like-minded neighbors in Idaho near Prohibition Crick, a former safe house on Richard's old drug smuggling route.
- Donald 'D-squared' Cameron, a Cambridge fellow and author of highly regarded fantasy fiction contracted to provide a broad, consistent narrative of T'Rain.
- Devin 'Skeletor' Skraelin, an absurdly prolific pulp fantasy author under long-term contract to fill in narrative details of T'Rain.
- Ershut, a follower of Abdallah Jones, whom Richard thinks of as a 'Barney', meaning a technically proficient deputy. Though an abductor of Zula, he is reasonably kind to her. Vaporized when a dying member of Richard’s crew voluntarily became a suicide bomber himself.
Reception[edit]
Writing in the Irish Examiner, Val Nolan called Reamde 'one of the smartest, fastest-moving, and most consistently enjoyable novels of the year'. It is, Nolan went on, a 'painstakingly-researched, deftly-plotted roller-coaster of gigabytes and gunplay, a pitch-perfect pastiche of Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy-style techno-thrillers and a comment on contemporary digitality and the ubiquity of online interconnectivity.'[2]
Rowan Kaiser for The A.V. Club gives Reamde an A− rating saying: 'The marriage of the thrilling and the nerdy is what makes Reamde work, and it offers a glimpse at a fascinating writer making a welcome transition back into a more accessible style.'[3]
Kirkus Reviews sums up Reamde as: 'An intriguing yarn—most geeky, and full of satisfying mayhem.'[4]
Cory Doctorow writes in his Boing Boing review: 'Stephenson's several exquisitely choreographed shoot-outs (including an epic, 100+ page climactic mini-war) are filled with technical gubbins about guns that convey the real and genuine enthusiasm of a hardcore gun-nut, with so much verve, so much moment, that I found myself itching to find a firing range and try some of this stuff out for myself.'[5]
Michelle West, reviewing the novel for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, did not consider the book to be science fiction and called it 'a geek thriller.' She wrote, 'Even if I don't like characters Stephenson's created, I nonetheless find them engaging, and I read him in large part for his characters and the particular ways in which they process information and interact with the world. Of his novels, this has easily the most structurally solid ending. In feel, it's closest to Cryptonomicon, although all of the action takes place in the present, where information travels quickly, and cellphones and wifi are ubiquitous. I enjoyed it greatly, and I frequently laughed out loud at his descriptions or his dialogue; it read like a much shorter book.'[6]
In an interview, Paul Di Filippo called Reamde 'the most gripping and funny and wise thriller I've ever read.'[7]
Entertainment Weekly called it 'an ingenious epic' in their 'Must List' column.[8]
References[edit]
- ^Catalog, Harper Collins, archived from the original on 2011-05-22, retrieved 2011-09-04
- ^Nolan, Val (19 November 2011). 'Bestseller Stephenson's new hi-tech gaming thriller is a world apart'. Irish Examiner. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^Kaiser, Rowan (5 October 2011). 'Reamde'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^'Who lives by the joystick dies by the joystick: Noir futurist Stephenson (Anathem, 2008, etc.) returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller'. Kirkus Reviews. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^Doctorow, Cory (14 September 2011). 'Stephenson's REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller'. Boing Boing. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^West, Michelle (July–August 2012). 'Musing on Books'. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ^Walters, Trent. 'An Interview with Paul Di Filippo'. SF Site. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ^Lee, Stephan (Jul 13, 2012). 'Your Summer Must List: Books'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 18, 2014.
External links[edit]
- Leonard, Andrew (18 September 2011). 'Has Neal Stephenson become too accessible?'. Salon. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011.
A READMEfile contains information about other files in a directory or archive of computer software. A form of documentation, it is usually a simple plain text file called Read Me, READ.ME,[1]README.TXT,[2][1]README.md[1] (for a text file using markdown markup), README.1ST[1] – or simply README.[1]
The file's name is generally written in uppercase letters. On Unix-like systems in particular this makes it easily noticed – both because lowercase filenames are more common, and because traditionally the ls command sorts and displays files in ASCII-code order, so that uppercase filenames appear first.[nb 1]
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The contents typically include one or more of the following:
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- Configuration instructions
- Installation instructions
- Operating instructions
- A file manifest (list of files included)
- Copyright and licensing information
- Contact information for the distributor or programmer
- Known bugs[3]
- Troubleshooting[3]
- Credits and acknowledgments
- A changelog (usually for programmers)
- A news section (usually for users)
History[edit]
It is unclear when the convention began, but there are examples dating back to the mid 1970s.[4][5][6][7][8][9][1][better source needed] Early Macintosh system software installed a Read Me on the startup disk, and they commonly accompanied third-party software.
In particular, there is a long history of free software and open-source software including a README file; the GNU Coding Standards.[10] encourage including one to provide 'a general overview of the package'.
Since the advent of the web as a de facto standard platform for software distribution, many software packages have moved (or occasionally, copied) some of the above ancillary files and pieces of information to a website or wiki, sometimes including the README itself, or sometimes leaving behind only a brief README file without all of the information required by a new user of the software.
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In more recent times, the popular GitHub proprietary Git repository[11] strongly encourages a README file - if one is included in the main (top-level) directory, it is automatically presented on the main web page. While traditional plain text is supported, various different file extensions and formats are also supported,[12] and conversion to HTML takes account of the file extension of the file – in particular a 'README.md' file would be treated as a GitHub Flavored Markdown file.
As a generic term[edit]
The expression 'readme file' is also sometimes used generically, for files with a similar purpose.[citation needed] For example, the source code distributions of many free software packages, especially those following the Gnits Standards or those produced with GNU Autotools, include a standard set of readme files:
README | General information |
AUTHORS | Credits |
THANKS | Acknowledgments |
CHANGELOG | A detailed changelog, intended for programmers |
NEWS | A basic changelog, intended for users |
INSTALL | Installation instructions |
COPYING / LICENSE | Copyright and licensing information |
BUGS | Known bugs and instructions on reporting new ones |
CONTRIBUTING / HACKING | Guide for prospective contributors to the project |
Other files commonly distributed with software include a FAQ and a TODO file listing possible future changes.
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Notes[edit]
- ^This is often no longer the case – but LC_ALL=C ls will show the older behavior.

References[edit]
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- ^ abcdefAbdelhafith, Omar (2015-08-13). 'README.md: History and Components'. Archived from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^Raymond, Eric Steven (1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press. pp. 378–79. ISBN978-0-26268092-9.
Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a Unix source distribution, containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc. […] When asked, hackers invariably relate the README convention to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled 'Eat Me' and 'Drink Me'.
- ^ abManes, Stephen (November 1996). 'README? Sure--before I buy!'. PC World. 14 (11): 366.
- ^'PDP-10 Archive: decus/20-0079/readme.txt from decus_20tap3_198111'. pdp-10.trailing-edge.com. 1974-11-27. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
[README.TXT is the DOC file for SPICE/SINC/SLIC] This failsafe tape contains the circuit analysis programs SPICE SINC and SLIC described in the Applications Software Bulletin Volume 4. requirements: SPICE requires FORTRAN-10 version 4 because of its use of Right adjusted Holerith data. Executes in about 47K. […] it also includes this file, the FOROTS to go with the SAVes and the source for SECOND.MAC, the timing routine. SPICE is broken into three parts: 1SPICE.FOR, 2 and 3. There is a printed document to describe each of the programs. These are included in the DECUS packet. The documentation and programs were origionally developed by the E.E. department of the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley on a CDC 6400. Except to convert the FORTRAN to the DECsystem-10 no changes have been made to the programs. For the test data SLIC and SINC have shown a slight variation with respect to the 6400, SPICE shows no variation. Good luck! Ashley Grayson 27-NOV-74 [end of README.TXT]
- ^'DECUS 10-LIB-4 Contains 10-210 through 10-241, except 10-223'. pdp-10.trailing-edge.com. 1975-03-27. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
The files on this FAILSAFE tape constitute the UCI LISP system. They are for the most part documented in the UCI LISP Manual, available from the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, California.
[1] - ^'Programmer's Workbench /sys/source/lex/README'. July 1977. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^'Unix 7th edition /usr/doc/README'. 1979. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^'First 32bit BSD usr/doc/README'. March 1980. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^Langemeier, Jeff (2011-07-29). 'Re: Origin of README'. Retrieved 2020-01-25 – via Stackexchange.
[…] they had READMEs (actual physical printed files) for all of their punch cards and mag tape and pretty much anything else that was a 'program'. At that time you really needed one because of the labourous process that was involved with getting the created, ran, and everything else. These READMEs sometimes also included the actual printouts of how the punch cards were supposed to be punched as a form of error checking and debugging. The convention apparently also follows the old system in that with all the punch cards a 'reem' of paper was attached with the statement README in caps printed on it, this had all of the instructions for use and loading of the punch cards into the system. For a time reference, this would have been in the 60s. […]
- ^'GNU Coding Standards: Releases'. www.gnu.org. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ^'Code-sharing site Github turns five and hits 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories'. TheNextWeb.com. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
- ^'Markup'. GitHub. GitHub. 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
Further reading[edit]
- Johnson, Mark (1997-02-01). 'Building a Better ReadMe'. Technical Communication. Society for Technical Communication. 44 (1): 28–36. JSTOR43089849.[2][3]
- Rescigno, Jeanne (August 1997). 'Hypertext good choice for README files'. Technical Communication. Society for Technical Communication. 44 (3): 214. JSTOR43089876.
- Livingston, Brian (1998-09-14). 'Check your Readme files to avoid common Windows problems'. InfoWorld. Vol. 20 no. 37. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 34. Archived from the original on 2006-11-18. Retrieved 2019-06-04.[4]
- Benjamin, Andrew (1996-09-15) [1993]. Written at Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK. Guédon, Jean-Claude (ed.). 'Readme: Writing Notes - Meditations on the temporality of writing'. Surfaces (Electronic journal) (in English and French). Université de Montréal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. III (12): 1–12. ISSN1188-2492. Archived from the original on 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2019-06-04.[5]
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