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Anyone else feel like Stephenson can only produce "nerd-bait"? Most of his literary work doesn't have strong characterization or meaningful plots, and everythi

Anyone else feel like Stephenson can only produce "nerd-bait"? Most of his literary work doesn't have strong characterization or meaningful plots, and everything he writes has this tired, "The geek shall inherit the Earth," undercurrent.

mquander 17y ago
There's a name for that: "science fiction."
- masomenos 17y ago
  incidentally, Stephenson prefers "speculative fiction".
- tel 17y ago
  There's a division. Asimov and Herbert are science fiction, but not so easily grouped with Stephenson.