Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
by mgarfias on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:05PM
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I _HATED_ Foundation as a kid. Only now do I realize that Asimov basically wrote a history book.
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Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
by bostik on Monday August 29, 2022 @03:05AM
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Rewrote.
Foundation has been described as a condensed retelling of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Terminus is an outlier and an observer in a universe that goes through the convulsions of the slow, but inevitable breakdown.
Re:We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
by MezzoDelCammin on Monday August 29, 2022 @05:33AM
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"Decline and Fall" has been an inspiration for maybe the first book. Being that it started the series, it set the pieces for the worldbuilding, but not the narrative of the whole saga. The later books are way more exploratory in how a society can / should be reconstructed.
That being said, it's still 1950's science fiction. Good writing, but nowhere near the complexity of Stephenson's worldbuilding or G.R.R.Martin's politics / narrative threads.