![]() ![]() So I was crestfallen to see my review copy of Reamde boasting that the novel promises to be Stephenson’s "most commercial" work to date. ![]() Which got me excited, because Snow Crash is one of my favorite novels, using the conceptual language of computers, the imagistic and generic tropes of sci-fi and action movies, and the backing of centuries of history, philosophy, and various theoretical frameworks to weave a complex and compelling thesis about the evolution of the human race, while giving us characters we care about kicking ass. When I first saw an online synopsis for Reamde I immediately drew lines to Neal Stephenson's 1992 post-cyberpunk (pre-post-cyberpunk?) masterpiece Snow Crash, because of the mention of a computer virus that spreads itself through a persistent virtual world, which is how the latter's plot is set into motion as well. ![]()
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