And it's definitely NOT political.
By "post-cyberpunk," I mean... well what's cyberpunk? Gritty, pessimistic, the world is kinda in the crapper and is controlled by ultracorporations, technology is ubiquitous and is sometimes take the place of our humanity.
Snow Crash is... happier. Or maybe more optimistic. There are still superpowerful corporations, but they're not all evil, and because there's a lot of them, they're not super-powerful, just powerful.
There's a ton of technology, but the people are still PEOPLE. And there's the general atmosphere that everything is NOT inherently doomed. It has a sense of humor about itself- hell, the main character is named Hiro Protagonist.
And it's definitely not politically motivated.
By "post-cyberpunk," I mean... well what's cyberpunk? Gritty, pessimistic, the world is kinda in the crapper and is controlled by ultracorporations, technology is ubiquitous and is sometimes take the place of our humanity.
Snow Crash is... happier. Or maybe more optimistic. There are still superpowerful corporations, but they're not all evil, and because there's a lot of them, they're not super-powerful, just powerful.
There's a ton of technology, but the people are still PEOPLE. And there's the general atmosphere that everything is NOT inherently doomed. It has a sense of humor about itself- hell, the main character is named Hiro Protagonist.
And it's definitely not politically motivated.
I amuse myself.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - discuss
- 11/04/2010 07:59:35 AM
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I enjoyed it very much.
- 11/04/2010 11:51:23 AM
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Great fun to read, full of awesome ideas. Does to linguistics what Dan Brown did to history, but hey
- 13/04/2010 11:22:41 PM
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He nailed Second Life, though. *NM*
- 14/04/2010 01:40:06 AM
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I guess so. And it probably won't be too long before we have gargoyles walking around. *NM*
- 14/04/2010 08:46:57 AM
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and google earth is modeled after the "earth" program from the book... *NM*
- 14/04/2010 04:42:52 PM
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it is cyberpunk right?
- 16/04/2010 06:35:57 PM
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If you mean "Is he pushing a political agenda?", absolutely not.
- 18/04/2010 04:27:47 PM
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I may have to put it back on to be read list then
- 18/04/2010 07:34:57 PM
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What's your definition of "cyberpunk"?
- 18/04/2010 08:07:02 PM
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not having read much cyberpunk it isn't a well defined definition
- 19/04/2010 06:42:16 PM
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Theme-wise it's fairly close to what you describe, only not boring.
- 19/04/2010 08:02:16 PM
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It's often considered "post-cyberpunk"
- 19/04/2010 05:23:15 PM
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I feel there's definitely some anti-corporationism in there, but it's wildly exaggerated. *NM*
- 19/04/2010 07:46:21 PM
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