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'Yours Truly' seems banal when the main character is Hiro Protagonist.

Self-debasing levity is one of the many reasons Snow Crash (1992) is a great reaction to Neuromancer (1984).



I think quite a few folks missed or have forgotten that Snow Crash is a satire on the cyberpunk genre AND society at the same time


And those folks are trying very hard with the whole Torment Nexus thing.


nueromancer tried to be edgy and serious, snow crash is weird and fun


Neuromancer was edgy and serious... in 1984.

And as Gibson later said ~00s, cyberpunk's moment is past and now it's boring. (At least according to him, but that counts for something)




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