Trying to figure out how I should explain this to my wife: the new Neal Stephenson book comes out tomorrow, and the Twitter spoiler statute of limitations is approx 1 day per 300 pages, so we need to push back that due date.
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So far: the cast of Reamde does Snow Crash.
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Ok, done, you can post spoilers now. That was a very weird book. If you really like Stephenson, you’ll like it a lot. If not, skip.
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
10 pages in, like it so far is it the cast of Reamde? I haven't checked character names yet but the reference to "an adventure long ago" plus "video game" made me think it might be
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Yes, same people (and some other recognizable characters, inevitably).
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how many more years until Stephenson gets old enough that he wants to "tie all the threads together" a la Heinlein, Asimov, etc., and we get the characters of Zodiac, The Big U, etc. travelling through time to hang out with YT and The Diggers in medieval Europe ?
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lololol came across Shaftoe and Waterhouse and, yes, our favorite long lived gent was found ... hanging around.
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