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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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I think it's a Cyberpunk novel that just happens to be more satirical and funny than most are, but I don't think the targets of most of the jokes is to make fun of Cyberpunk. One of my favorite things is like some of the memos in the book and and you know, suburban life in the 90s. The idea of, oh, what if like, this cool hacker was also literally a ninja, seems really absurd on the face of it. But at the same time, I mean, hero is this very unique and interesting creation.

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