There's a Stephenson who likes action and guns and swords and cars and stuff, and a Stephenson who aspires to be Stanislaw Lem but in English. Snow Crash was as

There's a Stephenson who likes action and guns and swords and cars and stuff, and a Stephenson who aspires to be Stanislaw Lem but in English. Snow Crash was as close to parity as I've ever seen them. The latter has been increasingly in the ascendant since then.