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Date: | Sat, 29 Jul 1995 16:26:17 EDT |
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Well, I am disappointed in the lack of literary flights of fancy
exhibited by the mapnerd crowd.
However, there are exceptions! Thanks to Fran Woodward for her clues
to summer reading. Thanks also to Susan Klimley at Columbia U who led
me to a scifi masterpiece I can recommend...
Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash Bantam paperback 1993
Written in 1988-91, this is a wonderful sendup of the internet
universe. Road Warrior hits the infobahn. And he calls up his computer
map at times to identify characters in his immediate vicinity.
Unfortunately his technology is a little bit behind the curve and his
use of the map tends to jangle the system somewhat...
I am only on p. 84 [out of 470] but I have not stopped laughing. This
book is a wonderful sendup of the "culture" [take that in a variety of
ways, biological, social...] we live in today. Perfect beach blanket
reading.
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