From the Grandfather of Cyberpunk

[Who's Wee Dug]

Or at least one of them.

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.

 

[Tonyblack]

It seems to be £6.99 on Kindle now. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Crash...=1704714898&sprefix=Snow+crash,aps,140&sr=8-1 Tony you can get it on Audible with the free trial.

 

[Cheery]

Adding this to my book list, sounds very intriguing!

 

[Quatermass]

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'. I can't explain anymore without spoilers...

 

[Molokov]

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]

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)

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

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.