I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. All I can say is, "Wow!" (Okay, I lied, there's quite a bit more to follow).
For those of you who've never heard of it, Snow Crash is a science fiction novel, smartly written and dazzling in its concise complexity, that belongs to an increasingly popular subcategory of SF called "cyberpunk."
What does this mean?
Think The Matrix. Only better. Faster. Smarter. Meaner.
Snow Crash is set in a near-future world and centers around the story of a hacker, Hiro Protagonist, and a 15-year-old street thrasher named Y.T. Hiro is also a pizza delivery boy for the Mafia and the greatest sword-fighter in the world.
Basically, nothing is missing from this book. From the opening high-speed pizza delivery to the adrenaline-pumping climax involving what seems like the entire citizenry of the lower West Coast, the book's energy does not abate.
I've never read anything so amazingly well-paced, and so complex yet easy to get into.
Basically, what I'm saying it this: all you AWers need to read this book.
For those of you who've never heard of it, Snow Crash is a science fiction novel, smartly written and dazzling in its concise complexity, that belongs to an increasingly popular subcategory of SF called "cyberpunk."
What does this mean?
Think The Matrix. Only better. Faster. Smarter. Meaner.
Snow Crash is set in a near-future world and centers around the story of a hacker, Hiro Protagonist, and a 15-year-old street thrasher named Y.T. Hiro is also a pizza delivery boy for the Mafia and the greatest sword-fighter in the world.
Basically, nothing is missing from this book. From the opening high-speed pizza delivery to the adrenaline-pumping climax involving what seems like the entire citizenry of the lower West Coast, the book's energy does not abate.
I've never read anything so amazingly well-paced, and so complex yet easy to get into.
Basically, what I'm saying it this: all you AWers need to read this book.
