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Someone write a novel please. Not sure who will be more appropriate: Stross (more fun?), Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt

by xarope 11mo ago

Someone write a novel please. Not sure who will be more appropriate: Stross (more fun?), Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?).

QuadrupleA 11mo ago
Cory Doctorow perhaps? At first glance I thought the OP was quoting him.
- trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
  This was literally a plot element in "Big Brother" - the protagonists use modded xboxes to create a mesh network to avoid government surveillance.
protocolture 11mo ago
Stross, because you get the added value of seeing him hate any new concepts he uses 10+ years later.
jaredhallen 11mo ago
Agreed on the ridiculous page counts, but I don't find Stephenson's pages a slog. Exhausting, maybe. There's a lot going on. But he makes me laugh. I'd like to meet that guy.
ddalex 11mo ago
I really love Stephenson's world building and detailed research, but I get the feeling he himself gets bored with the book at a certain point :) So I vote Stross
johanvts 11mo ago
Fits well with William Gibson. The Turing-police will visit anybody who consumes more than 5 yearly vapes.
- ErroneousBosh 11mo ago
  I see there's a TV adaptation of Neuromancer coming out. I'm a little disappointed that they didn't have it directed by an AI reconstruction of David Lynch, because that would have been so very fitting.
shadyKeystrokes 11mo ago
Then a end midsentence and a black page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War closest you can get to vape insurgency
ErroneousBosh 11mo ago
> Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?). With the six pages in the middle where he may as well say "Right, I had to learn a lot of algebra for compiler optimisation to make this bit work, so now you get to learn it too"
officeplant 11mo ago
It's not the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards podcast has a pretty easy read[1]. It's also offered as a free audiobook read by him as a series of podcasts. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution Might not be what you want if you want more technical & hacking versus dystopian capitalism collapse. But he gets bonus points for Texas getting nuked as a lore point.

by xarope 11mo ago

QuadrupleA 11mo ago

Cory Doctorow perhaps? At first glance I thought the OP was quoting him.

trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
This was literally a plot element in "Big Brother" - the protagonists use modded xboxes to create a mesh network to avoid government surveillance.

protocolture 11mo ago

Stross, because you get the added value of seeing him hate any new concepts he uses 10+ years later.

jaredhallen 11mo ago

Agreed on the ridiculous page counts, but I don't find Stephenson's pages a slog. Exhausting, maybe. There's a lot going on. But he makes me laugh. I'd like to meet that guy.

ddalex 11mo ago

I really love Stephenson's world building and detailed research, but I get the feeling he himself gets bored with the book at a certain point :) So I vote Stross

johanvts 11mo ago

Fits well with William Gibson. The Turing-police will visit anybody who consumes more than 5 yearly vapes.

ErroneousBosh 11mo ago
I see there's a TV adaptation of Neuromancer coming out. I'm a little disappointed that they didn't have it directed by an AI reconstruction of David Lynch, because that would have been so very fitting.

shadyKeystrokes 11mo ago

Then a end midsentence and a black page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War closest you can get to vape insurgency

ErroneousBosh 11mo ago

> Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?). With the six pages in the middle where he may as well say "Right, I had to learn a lot of algebra for compiler optimisation to make this bit work, so now you get to learn it too"

officeplant 11mo ago

It's not the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards podcast has a pretty easy read[1]. It's also offered as a free audiobook read by him as a series of podcasts. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution Might not be what you want if you want more technical & hacking versus dystopian capitalism collapse. But he gets bonus points for Texas getting nuked as a lore point.