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Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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Any recommendations on what to read after this one? I also have Piranesi Susanna Clarke on my backlog, but would like something in a similar technological fashion as Snow Crash

Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Unrelated, but I can never not recommend Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon .

Magnum opus. ~1000 pages of what-happens-next, unresolved until the very last paragraph of the very last page.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Cryptonomicon is such a good book. Even the audiobook is done really well.

    "No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Just looked this up and it has gone straight on to my backlog, thanks for the recommendation!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Cheers and enjoy!

    Snowcrash is such an entertaining romp, made all the more spectacular considering that when published, ideas like avatar and cyberspace (both terms coined by Stephenson I’m told) were wildly futuristic, bordering on precognitive, considered now passé only a generation later.

    Stephenson is a seer.

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