Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a novel I have heard about for years, so I finally decided to read it. Written in 1992 at the beginning of the information age, it depicts a world both connected by internet type technology, but also fractured into “tribes” by the same technology. Sound prophetic?
There are many examples like this, but some that miss the mark. Folks are still using videocassettes? Interesting. The plot is also opaque. What does any of it mean? Hero’s conversations with the librarian go on for far too long, and stalls the action.
Y.T. is the most interesting character, but she is underutilized simply because she so strongly written. She is fifteen and has consensual sex with an adult man. So there is that.
Overall, Snow Crash is good but uneven. Stephenson tries to spin a lot of plates, and many of them fall.
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