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Re: suggestions, please...
Howdy,
> oops., yea - i meant Neuromancer and by william gibson and just that
> cryptonomicon reminds me a lot of him (gibson)
Really? In what way? I thought Diamond Age was much more in line with Gibson
than Crypto. And Snow Crash. *Definitely* Snow Crash. There wasn't much
cyberpunk in Crypto, at least not in the science-fictiony, futurist sense.
It's set in the present and the past, and the technology is all extant. It's
more of a word problem in information theory than anything else. :-) What
of Gibson's work does it remind you of?
> > Williams (anything by Williams, really), _Foucault's Pendulum_ by Eco,
> > the
>
> i absolutely loved Foucalt's penduluum... (:
The thing about Foucault's Pendulum is that you have to be willing to let
Eco take you where he wants to go. He spends hundreds and hundreds of pages
letting you get to know these characters well enough so that you understand
why they make the decisions they do in the climax of the plot. It's very
different from your usual plot-based novels. I found it seductive, and the
ideas were thrilling. The claim that people can find any number of ways
to construct a narrative (there ya go, j. marie :-)) that connects a group
of random points is one that has stuck with me and become integral to my
way of looking at the world around me.
> > _Otherland_ series, although I'm not sure it's as good as Stephenson.
> > Certainly Stephenson packs his ideas in more densely. :-)
>
> as in the Illearth series?
You mean Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series? No, I was thinking
of Neal Stephenson.
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