I believe the only book ever written as howto for creating a MUD was MUD Game Programming by Ron Pelton. Originally published in late 2003, it's been out of print for a while and I finally managed to snag a used copy for a reasonable price. It even came with an unopened CD.
I don't expect to glean a great deal from it having already written an asynchronous server, plus Pelton is using C++ where I'm doing everything in Python. Still, it seems like a quality book with a lot of example code. Books on game programming tend to suffer a poor signal to noise ratio. There's a ton of dreck out there, especially garbage written by industry insiders who have no clue about programming but feel like they can help you with their experience interviewing other non-programmers. Ugh. Even worse are the ones aimed at teens -- clearly targeting the well-intentioned but useless gift from Mom category.
Pardon the rant.
Anyways, I've read the first couple chapters on networking and socket programming and Pelton is delivering the goods. He is specific and writes in an friendly, engaging manner. He gets extra points for covering Linux in addition to Windows. Recommended (if you can find it).
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