Revisiting Classics: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Over the last year or so, I've been revisiting books that were influential both to tabletop RPGs I'm playing and to genres I really enjoy. Snow Crash belongs a little bit to both lists. I originally came through it as an influence to a game I enjoy, but the cyberpunk genre has come to be one I really enjoy. Its publication in 1992 puts it a little later in the cyberpunk canon than books like Neuromancer. It tells the story of hacker turned pizza delivery boy for the mafia Hiro Protagonist […]

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Les événements du 27 septembre.
En 1825, ouverture de la première ligne ferroviaire de transports de passagers. Pour la première fois, des passagers prennent place dans un train emmené par la Locomotion No 1 de Georges #Stephenson, sur la ligne « Stockton and Darlington Railway » en Angleterre.
https://www.histoiredesinventions.com/27-septembre/
Neal Stephenson (@nealstephenson) on X

Today in “you can’t make this stuff up,” Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy

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Les événements du 9 juin.
En 1781, naissance de l’anglais George #Stephenson, principal #inventeur de la #locomotive
https://www.histoiredesinventions.com/9-juin/

You have to have some guts to call your protagonist Protagonist.
This sets the mood of Snow Crash perfectly.
Hat tip to Neal Stephenson.

#snowcrash #stephenson #scifi #books #literature

I've picked back up Neal Stephenson's #Quicksilver. Excellent bedtime reading material.

But I confess it feels less of a novel & more of a love letter to intellectual showboating. It opens like an overstuffed chest of historical noteworthies. Seems like #Stephenson is indulging in his fanboy obsession w the Royal Society. Newton, Hooke & their villain Leibniz are less characters & more action figures in his sandbox.

#vendredilecture bis : Je viens de commander le nouveau #NealStephenson sorti depuis une semaine, « Polostan », premier tome d’une trilogie à paraître qui s’appelle « Bomb Light » dans la même veine que son « Baroque cycle » scandaleusement jamais traduit en français. Pour la nouvelle série on passe du 17e siècle au début du dernier, les premières décennies du 20e, et à l’histoire turbulente de l’espionne Dawn Ray Bjornberg : issue d’un clan de cow-boys anarchistes mais grandie à Léningrade elle fera face à non moins que la fin du monde. Curieux si le personnage sans age du Enoch Root aura son caméo habituel dans les épopées uchroniques de #Stephenson...

Zem VS Slnko VS Stephenson 2-18

Earth VS Sun VS Stephenson 2-18

📽️ Universe Science

#Universe #space #science #earth #sun #stephenson