Stephenson is the anti-Borges. Exhausting and direct baroque elaboration of worlds instead of aphoristic and elliptical hints of 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 many of Stephenson’s novels can best be thought of as hypertext with links expanded to depth=3
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