On Wed, 27 May 2015 09:00:01 -0700, marc.ramsey wrote:

On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 1:56:59 AM UTC-7, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 16:04:06 -0700, libelledriver wrote:
Looks like he might have picked up a touch of Gibson-style technopunk.
Its on my must-read list.

You must have missed Stephenson's "Snowcrash", a classic of the
technopunk/cyberpunk genre...

I have a copy & have read it twice. I like it a lot, but it is very
largely ground-based: there's very little aerospace in any Stevenson. Not
really even in Cryptonomicon or Anathem. His stuff doesn't have the
aviation and space related overtones of the Burning Chrome/Count Zero/
Mona Lisa Overdrive era Gibson - but then again nor does any of the more
recent Gibson either. Maybe its time I read some more Iain M Banks?




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