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4/ ...and then spends 20 million pages talking about the seven races of mankind, and how they have different strengths and weaknesses entirely because of genetics, and how these differences persist through thousands of years.
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5/ In Anathem he seems to write a love-letter to universities ...but really, it's more about monasteries.
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6/ He also has a TON of red-gray tribe characters, and casual ownership of firearms is just a background accepted thing.
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I think, too, that as Gibson is to setting, Stephenson is too capable and interested in characters to fully or even mostly subvert them in the name of political sophistry.
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Definitely important to recognize what part of the narrative dynamic (e.g. character, plot, setting, theme) an author feels is most dear and thus unwilling to compromise on.
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The malala/hrc dynamic was *savage*
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I think this is legitimately possible. I don't need to it to be true, his books are still great even if they mean exactly what they seem to on the surface But there's definitely a "Straussian reading" of them as well
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In fact you can easily read nearly every one of his books as a red-gray attack on the System. If Diamond Age is set later in the same timeline as Snow Crash, then it's not even some goofy conspiracy—the Crash is followed by the Diamond Age
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