Memories of Maniac – Tom Clancy’s Netforce March 18, 2024

Welcome back to a new Memories of Maniac and today we’re going to be talking about something from twenty years ago. In the late 90s, techno-thriller author Tom Clancy lent his name to an entire generation of Ubisoft games, such as Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six. What you may not remember is Clancy is also credited with the concept of multiple book series, which, over twenty years after its initial publishing, may be closer to reality then we expected.

Today, we’re going to be talking about Netforce, a Tom Clancy book-series which was adapted into a made-for-tv movie. It followed a branch of the government focused on the internet in a future where it was entirely accessed through VR. Today, we’re going to talk about both the books and the movie. Twenty years later, let’s talk about the books and see what they successfully predicted.