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NovemberMike posted:Snow Crash is a lot more interesting if you read it as a satire of Cyberpunk. It's a book that starts off with a pizza delivery driver doing deadly serious deliveries for a corporate mafia (all of that literal) and IIRC (been awhile since I read it) ends with the aforementioned pizza samurai, also a huge nerd, driving a motorcycle into a crowd of thousands in cyberspace and setting off a virtual fireworks display while saving the day. You have corporate governments with patriotic wage slaves tied down by inane bureaucracy while a Texan billionaire is running an aircraft carrier. It takes everything that cyberpunk tried to do and turns it on its head beautifully. I began Snow Crash last night and I think this is the only sane way to read it. Maybe nerd culture has "ruined" the book retroactively (samurai swords having become a culture signifier for, you know).
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