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487. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Book Club (with Anthony Ha, Sam J. Miller, Lisa Yaszek)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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The Unsatisfactory End of Count Zero

Lisa Kogan: I think in some ways it's a real response to Gibson's sometimes I like it because I'm a sucker for utopian thinking. She says that where the ending of this book leaves me unsatisfied is where Gibson's endings almost never do which is that there's no real difference between hero or YT page one and page last exactly. The character Raven who I really love unceremoniously gets killed by a secondary character in a way that I didn't I didn't love, she adds. "I would have loved to have more you know justice although are we sure that Raven dies?" asks writer Lisa Kogan."It seems like we have a lot of concerns

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