Headcrash

A detailed Summary of Headcrash

The Book Headcrash is a 343-pg. book by Bruce Bethke. It takes place in the year 2005. The world has become a world controlled by computers and large multi-billion dollar companies. Our lead character, Jack Burroughs, has an adventure in Cyberspace (on the Internet). In order to understand the plot, one must understand the technology of the time. While most people today have a dial up TCP/IP connection to the Internet running at speeds up to 56Kbs, the Internet connections at that time where immensely greater then what we have today. In the year 2005, one is able to strap on a Virtual Reality suite and actually browse the Internet in real time, meaning a super fast connection to the Internet

Now, where does Jack Burroughs fit into all of this? Well, quite frankly, he doesn't really have much to do with it, except that Jack is an employee of MIS, a branch of an immensely large company. His branch of the company provides hardware, software, data, and network support to all the other subsidiaries. The way that the internet and Virtual Reality relates is the fact that Jack spends a lot time in his mothers basement playing around with his VR headset, and other various accessories, in a virtual, multi user dimensional VirtualBar calle

I spun around, shotgun at the ready.

This following quote shows the basic style of writing and humor that the aruthor does, as well as shows the concept of Virtual Reality.

Joe LeMat is a very cryptic figure. The author in this book didn't develop him much at all. The most I can say is that Joe is jack's best friend, likes beer, sex, and also seems to be a Cyberpunk. Jack and Joe are pretty much similar, except that jack is more of the type that gives up, and Joe is more of the type of friend that isn't extremely loyal or trustworthy.

In this book, I believe that there weren't many major conflicts. The major conflicts are as follows: Person vs. Person and person vs. self. Person vs. person is shown throughout the book. Jack is always in conflict with something, if it's his mother, all the way to Jack vs. Eliza. The more obvious person vs. person was with Jack and Eliza, or with Jack and Melinda. Since Melinda was Jack's boss, they were always arguing and threatening each other. Eliza actually attacked Jack many times in cyberspace in the book, showing a very obvious person vs. person conflict. Person vs. self is shown through jack's alter ego "MAX_KOOL". Jack secretly longs to be like MAX_KOOL, with his leather jacket and black jeans, his glasses and 1100cc Harley. Instead, Jack is stuck in his mother's basement, playing pretend games with other Cyberpunks.

"Pyle," it said in Melinda's voice. "You are dead meat."

The real Melinda. She was jingling her key ring.

After setting up their equipment, Jack gets ready to hack into MIS's computer system with his new equipment (Oh ya, he's first assigned to steal files from his old employer, MIS, which he doesn't mind doing.) Being a natural Cybergeek, Jack has no problems. He gets the files and returns them to Amber.

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Approximate Word count = 1315
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English