It uses the Rule of Cool to be fun while exploring its deeper concepts, and it works. The latter depicts a nasty, dystopic crapsack world, yes, but it's one with ninjas and nukes and traffic-surfing couriers and a Mafia-run pizza business. There's something terrifyingly real about the societies depicted in The Diamond Age, in a way that Snow Crash lacks, for all that they supposedly share a timeline. It's because The Diamond Age scares the ever-loving shit out of me, in a way that very little other sci-fi ever has. I remember why I've never reread it before, now.

Last week, I thought that it high time to amend that, as I could barely remember what happened in the book.

Yet, for some reason, I'd only ever read The Diamond Age once, a long time ago, and I'd never much felt like going back to reread it. Snow Crash is good fun with some very cool ideas and a lot of really weird shit, Anathem is fascinating if occasionally a touch pretentious, and I've read Cryptonomicon over ten times, to the point that my copy is now falling apart. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know! Imaginary Mindscapes - The Art of Imagination.The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons NOT allowed).The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons allowed).Ghost in the Shell and Ghost_in_the_Shell.Previously interviewed authors in the Ask an SF Author series: To write spoilers in comments, use the following method: (/s 'Darth Vader is Yoda's father')Īward Winning SF author Nancy Kress answers questions from the Reddit Scifi Community If you see a title with a spoiler in it, downvote it as hard as you can and then message the moderators. PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN YOUR SUBMISSION TITLE. New Rule: This rule was stupid and it's gone.Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer.

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