Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 💙📚
Jodi Taylor #BookRecommendation
In this remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores
linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future.
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A most excellent book. We still refer to burbclaves, and want our pizza delivered on time
Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite authors (obvs inc Jodi). Although Snow Crash is visceral in a William Gibson sort of way - bombarding you with ideas - his other books are perhaps more engaging for St Mary's fans, especially The Baroque Trilogy. This focuses on the period in the 17/18th century when finance, politics, philosophy and science all developed rapidly and inter-connectedly, and features a host of historical characters as well as some delightfully droll protagonists. Funny, thought-provoking, and highly re-readable (alongside its companion earlier novel Crytonomicon). Though my favourite of Stephenson's is Anathem, a slow burn of a novel that starts in an other-worldly monastery and builds up to what I will politely call a mind-coitus.