Stephenson also has this ur-hacker myth thing going on in basically all his books, and he makes shit up about sciences (like linguistics) that he doesn't actual

Stephenson also has this ur-hacker myth thing going on in basically all his books, and he makes shit up about sciences (like linguistics) that he doesn't actually know a goddamn thing about. The idea expressed by a commenter below that he qualifies as "hard" science fiction is, well, absolutely true as far as it goes - but only because nearly all of the writers lauded as writing "hard" science fiction make shit up about sciences (like sociology) that they don't know a goddamn thing about.