2/ Termination Shock was a kinda average Neal Stephenson novel. If you like that sort of thing (I do) you may like this. Characters were good, ideas were ok, but there was absolutely zero plot. There was no protagonist, no antagonist, and no disagreement or struggle
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3/ ...if it had been done by anyone other than Neal Stephenson himself, I'd call it an absolute trainwreck.
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4/ Westside https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41154316-westside?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3ID2Qrn5RZ&rank=1 … was decent. Urban fantasy, of a sort. Set in an alternative 1920s Manhattan where Creepy Things happen in the western half of the island. Not great, but inventive and fresh.
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5/ I re-read Kiteworld https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1596071.Kiteworld?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=5m07Jr5Xhn&rank=1after … having first read it around 1990. It absolutely held up...all except the last 3 pages though. It's a linked series of short stories / novellas, in a mundane (as far as tech and magic) but amazingly detailed world. Agree w this ->pic.twitter.com/s8ry7DzJea
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6/ The last few pages are a bit of a deus ex machina that ties things up too neatly, and in a way that is not thematically consistent w the rest of the stories. That aside, though, it's a story about very human characters in very human situations - more Dostoevsky than Asimov.
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7/ Neal Stephenson is sufficiently good at digressions and descriptions that he can rescue a trainwreck of a novel-qua-novel and still make it something interesting. I don't know of any other author who can.https://twitter.com/ngvrnd/status/1469047238164992003 …
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