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Re:The Day the Moon Blew Up by saadrizvi on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:59PM (#11719193)
I enjoyed Seveneves but thought it wasn't Stephenson's best work by far.

I'd rate Anathem and Snow Crash much higher than it.

Re:The Day the Moon Blew Up by scholia on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:12AM (#11722509)
Same here, plus The Diamond Age. I read them all as they came out, and the shorter earlier books (The Big U, Snowcrash) had much more impact on me than the longer later ones.

Or course, it's impossible to read Snowcrash today and feel anything like the same impact because ideas that were pretty far out way back then are commonplace today.

Re:The Day the Moon Blew Up by saadrizvi on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:11PM (#11733882)
+1 on Diamond Age - awesome book.