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Cyberpunk Rating?0/5 Spoons — "There Is No Spoon"
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Pro More fun than traditional cyberpunk novels
The greatest success of Snow Crash, however, is that it's fun... for a certain type of reader, at least. In defiance of all the rules and protocols of science fiction writing, Snow Crash is like crack for geeks precisely because it doesn't do things the way they're supposed to be done. The break-neck opening chapters, those massive infodumps on Sumerian religion, information theory and everything else were -- from my perspective at least -- a vertiginous rush the first time through, and I still get a kick out of them now after maybe six re-reads.
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Snow Crash
Recommended 4 years ago
Published in 1992, Snow Crash deconstructed the cyberpunk genre and its tropes so well that a sub-genre was born. While cyberpunk fiction continued to be released, this second movement struggled against the established conventions of cyberpunk with an updated awareness of the world wide web, predicting a m...
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More fun than traditional cyberpunk novelsSnow Crash
5 years ago
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Snow Crash
Recommended 8 years ago
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Snow Crash
Recommended 9 years ago
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