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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by walrus01 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:23PM (#30926446)
Snow Crash is in many places meant to be intentionally silly and absurdist as an extrapolated, exaggerated satire on contemporary American lifestyle at the time it was written, such as in the users manual for the "Reason" railgun
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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by jhbadger on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:43AM (#30931852)
And it is pretty obviously referring to 1992 current events. To modern readers L. Bob Rife is just a funny villain, but he was obviously a parody of 1992 outsider US Presidential Candidate H. Ross Perot.
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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by nonesuchluck on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:26AM (#30932322)
Oh. To this modern reader, L. Bob Rife was just an obvious parody of L. Ron Hubbard.

But he wasn't a Texan, so I suppose I see your angle. Interesting bit of flavor.

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