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  • From: "U. Jason Gloege Jr." <crash AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: fall reading
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:24:04 -0400 (EDT)


> What a great book. But not really science fiction. Kind of retro
> scientific fiction, sorta kinda. No Spaceman Spiff action at all.
> Which should not deter any SF buff from reading it.

And, of course, if we're talking Stephenson, you've got to have read _Snow
Crash_. Excellent book, and significantly (IMHO) more sci-fi than
_Cryptonomicon_ is. They're both wonderful, though.

Jason





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