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tim_j_001 's review for:
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
This is a tough one to sum up. I think this is partially because Neal Stephenson started to write one book and it transformed into something like a treatise on the history of neurolinguistics.
This definitely qualifies as cyberpunk. In this vision of the future the US government is weakened to the point where nobody even recognizes the President when he goes to Walmart. Neighborhoods have become city states. Law enforcement is privatized. And the mafia run the largest pizza franchise in the world.
Enter Hiro Protagonist. Pizza deliverator. Hacker extraordinaire. The world’s greatest sword fighter. And it’s not just a clever name, he does help save the world.
See a right wing media giant has teamed up with a religious franchise to attempt to use language to program the greater population to do their bidding. Who ever heard of something like that?
I am a little disappointed that there was no meatspace showdown between Hiro and Raven. Also, that YT doesn’t know that her puppy flew in to save her. Overall, it was a pretty fun read.
This definitely qualifies as cyberpunk. In this vision of the future the US government is weakened to the point where nobody even recognizes the President when he goes to Walmart. Neighborhoods have become city states. Law enforcement is privatized. And the mafia run the largest pizza franchise in the world.
Enter Hiro Protagonist. Pizza deliverator. Hacker extraordinaire. The world’s greatest sword fighter. And it’s not just a clever name, he does help save the world.
See a right wing media giant has teamed up with a religious franchise to attempt to use language to program the greater population to do their bidding. Who ever heard of something like that?
I am a little disappointed that there was no meatspace showdown between Hiro and Raven. Also, that YT doesn’t know that her puppy flew in to save her. Overall, it was a pretty fun read.