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He wrote all the best scifi on cryptocurrencies.
by anthonyskipper 4y ago
He wrote all the best scifi on cryptocurrencies.
- revskill 4y agoExcept for the "casino" viewpoint ?
- livueta 4y agoSlightly offtopic and I expect to take some heat for this, but figured I'd ask: Is it worth trying any other Stross works if I loathed Accelerando? to the point of being physically unable to finish it, which is pretty rare for me. I guess I'd say it felt overtargeted: the constant barrage of hacker culture namedrops, weebshit, BDSM, and similar make it feel like a masturbatory mary-sue fanfic, not a real novel. It's like: all this shit is theoretically right up my alley, but the presentation is so overbearing and weirdly self-serious (or did I miss the joke?) that the cringe factor was just overwhelming and I was left with the sensation that, somehow, this thing has got to be a false-flag work designed to make everything I enjoy look idiotic. I don't think I've had such a viscerally negative reaction to scifi since Honor Harrington. I have no problems with Stephenson or other superficially similar authors.