From the Grandfather of Cyberpunk

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Jul 27, 2008
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Or at least one of them.:mrgreen:
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One of my Favourites, published 25 years ago and quite a few things in it have become true or near enough, the rafts in question or similar craft, is eerily predictive of today.
Excellent read.
£0.99 on Kindle.
Snow Crash
By Neal Stephenson
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a “brilliantly realized” tale (The New York Times Book Review) with over 113,000 five-star Goodreads ratings! Pizza deliverer Hiro is a warrior prince in a virtual world, where a deadly threat is bleeding into reality… One of Time’s Top 100 All-Time Novels.
 

Quatermass

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Dec 7, 2010
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Ooh, Snow Crash. I actually loved reading it, and the central concept of it was an intriguing one. I also loved the joke about 'listening to Reason'. :roflmao: I can't explain anymore without spoilers...
 
#6
Man, it's been many years since I read Snow Crash. Definitely one of Stephenson's better books. (I mean, I enjoyed Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle and even REAMDE but they were sometimes a slog to get through.)

Of course, the *real* granddaddy of Cyberpunk (and, I think, the man who coined the term) is William Gibson with Neuromancer, also another book I haven't read in decades...
 

RathDarkblade

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City Watch
Mar 24, 2015
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#7
Sorry, cyberpunk isn't really my scene. *shrug*

I have at least half-a-dozen books I'm trying to get through right now. (Currently reading a history of Scandinavia, written by a Swede -- I'm trying to get into the Scandinavian 'mindset', because I'm writing a historical fiction, set in Iceland in the year 1,000. Wish me luck ;)

P.S. It's the first novel I've written that's set after the year 100 AD, so getting into the right mindset is a bit of an uphill battle) ;)
 
Jul 27, 2008
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Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Man, it's been many years since I read Snow Crash. Definitely one of Stephenson's better books. (I mean, I enjoyed Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle and even REAMDE but they were sometimes a slog to get through.)

Of course, the *real* granddaddy of Cyberpunk (and, I think, the man who coined the term) is William Gibson with Neuromancer, also another book I haven't read in decades...
Bruce Bethke was accredited with being the first to use the term with his book/short story "Cyberpunk"1980( I liked his later one "Headcrash as well) later picked up by the editor and author Gardener Dozis, but William Gibson brought it into mainstream use as we know it today.
 
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