I thought it was conventional to call most of Stephenson's work, including Snow Crash, "post-Cyberpunk", taking the ideas and aesthetic of cyberpunk, and dialin

I thought it was conventional to call most of Stephenson's work, including Snow Crash, "post-Cyberpunk", taking the ideas and aesthetic of cyberpunk, and dialing back the pessimism to bring it into something more closely resembling plausibility. IE, similar amounts of "cyber", significantly less "punk".