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REVIEW: Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
(Orbit e-book, originally published 1992) This was the very first novel by Neal Stephenson that I read, long before Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Trilogy. There’s a lot of similarity between it and Zodiac (which I read for the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Science fiction
Tagged avatar, coincidence, cool names, cult, dystopia, Enki, friendship, glossolalia, hackers, Neal Stephenson, Sumerian culture, sword-fighting, system crash, the Mafia, virtual reality, virus
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‘Rainbow Six’ – Tom Clancy
(Note: Spoilers in this review) A military counter-terrorism unit – Rainbow – is set up as an international force funded by the US government, but whose personnel are also from the UK and a few other countries (Germany, France and … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged alternate reality, destruction, environmentalism, guns, misogyny, terrorism, thriller, virus
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