LogFAQs > #937636546

Snow Crash Universe: I love how much Snow Crash predicted the future of the internet, right down to penis-based chat avatars, but still thought Japan would be Americas main rival instead of China. It even predicted edgelords with katanas. Basically everything in this book is great. The mafia being the good guys, the United States government being so bureaucratic that it cant accomplish anything and people dont remember who the president is, inflation meaning it costs billions of dollars to remove graffiti, and the authors fascination with Sumerian mythology, where hell stop the plot for pages to explain obscure Sumerian lore. Man! Remember when he kickstarted a VR game about swordfighting, then just didnt make it? Anyway, as far as Im concerned, Snow Crash and Diamond Age are the end of cyberpunk as a genre. Snow Crash completely deconstructs this genre and explains why its silly and insane, but in a really fun way that shows respect to it. What are you going to do with the genre after that? Ill tell you: nothing of value.