tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post8296080903399918527..comments2024-01-17T07:03:57.842+00:00Comments on The Mad Ranter: Neal StephensonFlipChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-72540130290035234122011-01-11T08:56:54.410+00:002011-01-11T08:56:54.410+00:00I'll agree that Snow Crash did peter out a lit...I'll agree that Snow Crash did peter out a little towards the end, and that some of his concepts weren't accurate; but as a story I enjoyed it.<br /><br />As for Vinge I've read, re-read, and enjoyed "The Peace War" and "Marooned in Realtime" in fact MiR was among one of the first SF books I ever read.FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-21353433056602652132011-01-10T18:09:51.779+00:002011-01-10T18:09:51.779+00:00I hated Snow Crash. The meatiness is good. The ide...I hated Snow Crash. The meatiness is good. The ideas-per-page ratio was great at the start but wears off somewhat over the course of the book. It felt like he changed his mind over the nature of the "franchulates" between chapters, too, but what really annoyed me was how much crap he talked all the way through. It was dire, and the obvious factual inaccuracies in places took all the intellectual value out of what might have been interesting discussions.<br /><br />If you want hard, cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk SF with an eye on the present, Vinge's later work (post-post-singularity, as it were) is very worthwhile.Dan Hhttp://surreal.istic.orgnoreply@blogger.com