Snow Crash: A Novel
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Amazing!
I haven’t read anything of Stephenson’s since Seveneves. Before that my only other exposure was with Anathem.
With those two books as my previous experience I was a little hesitant to dive into one of Neal’s massive tomes with endless paragraphs of info dump and esoteric scientific explanations.
I was PLEASENTLY surprised to find none of that. Yes, there are large chunks of Stephenson’s verbose prose. But while action packed and with an amazing world that only Stephenson can build this was still “light” compared to those novels.
A semi-dystopian future where the US is chopped into different enclaves and the mafia are the good guys this story blends real world action with VR/Matrix/Ready Player One simulated drama.