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Naming your main character Hiro Protagonist gives the game away somewhat.

• Avshalom 9y ago
  Unless you're 12 years old and Snow Crash is your first exposure to the genre. <.< >.> You know, speaking for a friend.
  • mattkevan 9y ago
    Even so, your ‘friend’ could have chosen worse places to start...
• taneq 9y ago
  To be perfectly honest, I did (and still do) oscillate on how I see that choice. Is it: 1) A clever if superficial name, 2) A dumb name because it's too obvious, 3) A clever name because it's satirizing the dumb choice of an obvious name, 4) A dumb name because the satire is also transparent... Basically it only works on odd "Yomi layers" (see http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/7-spies-of-the-mind http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/7-spies-of-the-mind). The rest of the book perfectly straddles the "haha-only-serious" line so I guess it's in keeping.