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Nevvy Z posted:You just blew my loving mind.
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Writing a good sex scene that won't be creepy is pretty much impossible so you might as well have fun with it.
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AlphaDog posted:I'd say that REAMDE isn't in the same universe. The Crypt comes online in the late 90s or early 2000s, and REAMDE seems to be set much closer to ~2010 than ~2000. If the Crypt exists in README's world, then T'Rain's importance as a way of anonymously moving money online doesn't make sense.
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New book was recently announced, Seveneves will be released in April next year. Apparently it has something to do with the last 7 women to survive a global catastrophe or something.
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It probably seemed like a better idea 23 years ago before "leetspeak" completely wore out its welcome.
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Jan 21, 2015 08:11
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Snak posted:I basically just wish the Stephenson would write nonfiction. I think all the best elements of his talent could still be present and all the weeaboo poo poo I hate would end up being way more toned down. My favorite thing about Stephenson always makes me think of the phrase George Lucas used while describing the Star Wars prequels in comparison to he original films: "It's like poetry, it's like they rhyme." Except that Stephenson is really loving good at and Lucas was terrible. Stephenson always picks one or two ideas, and then makes a book that is a just a loving fractal of that idea. Like, even Snow Crash is basically about two things: Surfing/Going with the flow and memetics, and those two are arguably related. Just about everything that happens in that book is related to one of those two things. He's also very fond of being critical of bureaucracy, which I think was a bigger influence in his earlier work. But he can't just stick to that, he also has to take the latest cool thing he's obsessed with and loving fellate it all over the page and make sure to have almost all of his characters be "super badass" at something. Like he's never had a character who wasn't a prodigy at something.
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Jan 22, 2015 05:39
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Snak posted:Because then we have to read about the wacky adventures of half-dick jack or whatever.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:55
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Snak posted:Except I was talking about an instance where he was using his katana in the real world. Which I should mention he does because he determined that katanas were BETTER THAN GUNS.
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Jan 24, 2015 01:27
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Snak posted:edit: to respond to your actual quote: NO! That's my point: Any writer can construct a situation where racists are persecuting a character of a specific race. It takes a special kind of writer to make the solution to that problem "I choose to draw my katana and cut off his head in a single motion". That's dumb as gently caress.
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Jan 24, 2015 07:22
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I've always blazed through Stephenson books but I'm still not finished with Reamde despite getting it on release day. I was going pretty fast until the apartment part, but everything slowed down when he went into all the little details of where everyone went from there. I'll probably try to wrap it up in the near future.
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Neal has a new book coming out in June, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.Oamazon posted:From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world. Sounds like a bit of a return to what his early pulpy books were like. He cowrote it with Nicole Galland who I didn't think I'd ever heard of before. Actually through some bizarre circumstances I sort of did know who she was because she played Ina Rece in Rebel Assault II, so she's probably doing a lot better than the vast majority of FMV game actors. 
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Jan 4, 2017 05:08
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Coca Koala posted:The plot of Snowcrash can be described as "What if there was a computer virus that could only infect hackers As for Nicole Galland it looks like she's only written original work, no licensed stuff.
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Jan 4, 2017 19:33
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" so i'm inclined to give this one a try too.
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Bilirubin posted:Halfway through Snow Crash for the first time and I can say its pretty good so far!
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May 1, 2017 04:59
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Anathem is a pretty middling book for me. I like that a lot of it is a homage to A Canticle of Leibowitz, but the long explanations of some of the concepts made my eyes glaze over. Maybe I'd do better now that I'm not 19 anymore.
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May 8, 2017 07:25
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Atlas Hugged posted:And this wasn't a problem in other Stephenson novels?
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May 8, 2017 12:52
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So DODO. I recently got to the point where they go to the "Trapezoid". This would seem to suggest that this is a parallel dimension or strand from our own. Did I miss any other anachronisms to that point of the book?
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Jul 5, 2017 23:33
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InvisiBill posted:It becomes a minor point later on, but it's not explained how the "Trapezoid" becomes the "Pentagon", but it is mentioned. Once they start mucking around and changing strands, I don't think the characters have any real way to say what was original or changed, by themselves or any "opposition". I'm most of the way through now. I was a little wary at first but this has turned into the kind of fun pulpy insanity that I was hoping it would be. I'd heartily recommend this book.
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Jul 12, 2017 00:47
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I want a sequel now. I'm hoping they don't just cap things off with this DODO Files thing.
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Jul 14, 2017 08:27
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Thranguy posted:How much I like the ending of DODO depends a whole lot on whether I think the story is meant to be continued in another book or books by the same authors, another book or books by one of the two authors, another book or books by completely different authors, in an MMORPG that will be lucky to get into development hell let alone out of it, or not at all.
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withak posted:There might be a Snow Crash adaptation coming from Amazon next year:
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Microcline posted:OK but how many pages does he go before talking about how cool samurai swords are? I think the current record is the Baroque Cycle which makes it around 1000 pages.
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