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
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
Diamond Age
Funny, in reading Diamond Age right now. So far so good.
Despite loving Neuromancer and a lot of cyberpunk literature I couldn’t really get into Snow Crash. It’s too ironic and over the top for my taste. I did love Anathem though, it’s probably one of my favorite books! Would you say I’d enjoy Diamond Age?
Snow Crash makes more sense when you realize it was written to be a comic book. The conceits of comics don’t translate to a novel unless fully re written.
I preferred Anathem over Snow Crash but they’re very different, for instance Anathem has a very slow start. I thought the Sprawl sequence (Neuromancer etc) got more and more like Snow Crash with each book.
Cyberpunk as a genre is generally self aware that it’s a ridiculous noir pastiche and leans into it for camp value even early on.
I loved Anathem, and the fact that it takes 300 pages before anything happens is wonderful. It’s been 15 years or so since I read it once and I still remember most of it; while I read Diamond Age twice but don’t have much that got retained over a decade later
Oh absolutely. I was kinda disappointed when it turned into a relatively standard action adventure near the end. I was hoping for a couple hundred more pages of slice-of-math-life.
Here to second a recommendation for Diamond Age.
thanks i loved the other two gonna try this one.
not truly related but scanner darkly kinda in same genre. more related to addictions though.