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If you don't think that an ex-drug-running millionaire chasing his neice(?) who has been kidnapped by terrorists, assisted by an MI5 agent, a russian killing machine, a biker, survivalist family members, and a bunch of other poo poo I don't remember, while being hunted by a mountain lion is at least self aware if not outright satire, well I don't know what to say. I definitely understand not liking it, but he absolutely went out and wrote the most ridiculous series of events he could think of - doing so was kind of the point of the exercise, I think. I was honestly surprised there wasn't a nuke. I kind of liked Reamde because I read it quite soon after Anathem and it was a nice relaxing ridiculous change of pace, while still keeping with the trademark entertaining digressions.
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Grim Up North posted:Until Reamde I always used to pre-order Stephenson's books without bothering to read reviews. I won't do that anymore.
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CaptainJuan posted:To be fair, the matter being spoiled isn't particularly important. It's not like when someone spoiled the ending of Use of Weapons in the scifi thread a couple months back. well, its kind of different from that, because seveneves has been out for four days and use of weapons has been out for 25 years
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NmareBfly posted:It's a minor thing, I know. Just saying is all.
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gohmak posted:Read Seven Eve's, Snow Crash, started Diamond Age. This guy is a racist. I'm out. A compelling argument, but consider this - perhaps it is YOU who is the real racist!
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:How do you pronounce Seveneves? Seven-eevs or seven-evs? adam and ev
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There's some interesting stuff in there about how different our interpretation of eg the bible would be if we had video recordings of everyone concerned, including the bit players, but that aspect is kinda skimmed over. It's not really what he wanted to write about, I guess.
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