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Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by kemayo on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:11AM (#15365974)
I do agree it's good, though I personally prefer Diamond Age, but I also think it has the Standard Stephenson Ending Problem. The ending really is a great action sequence, and resolves the immediate problem that the action sequence was about -- Snow Crash is disarmed -- but it's also more a stopping-point than an actual ending to the plot. There's a lot of "what happened next?" both with the overarching stuff and with the specifics of what happened to all the major characters, so there's not much closure.

There's a certain amount of circumstantial evidence that Diamond Age is set in the same universe decades later, which probably answers at least a bit of that, particularly if you assume a certain character is Y.T. based on one reference. But still, that's not much of a save for Snow Crash viewed as a complete story in itself.

Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by alekratz on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:29PM (#15366707)
Please tag your spoilers!
Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by hinkley on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:35PM (#15366769)
You know, people who are a season behind on TV shows have sense enough to stay away from threads about the show.

I think we can expect the same for a book that's celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by sunir on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:42PM (#15367402)
This isn't a thread about the content of the book to be fair.
Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by ghostbrainalpha on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:36AM (#15366203)
Spoiler....
Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ... by kemayo on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:43PM (#15366843)
Eh, it's a 25 year old well-known book, and the spoiler was "the good guys win".