Stephenson is the anti-Borges. Exhausting and direct baroque elaboration of worlds instead of aphoristic and elliptical hints of worlds
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Don't read too much into it. I still think it's legit for people to get annoyed at completely different art things.
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I might say 'exhaustive' rather than 'exhausting' in some cases, when the worldbuilding gods are smiling.
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He's not actually exhaustive though, lots of clear and conscious gaps in his worlds
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@cigardubey Borges is definitely more highly compressed. Unpacked, each of his shorts would be a Stephensonian novel
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@cigardubey In defense of NS, his kind of writing is technically harder to pull off. Borges set his sights lower.
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@cigardubey More true than you might think. Borges is LISP. NS is C++ with hints of Enterprise Java.
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I'm sure you and have everything I could say on the subject already covered :D
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