LE Snowcrash

[Monte Davis]

Daniel Harper writes:
 
> Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_ owes a lot to GR, and I'd be willing to bet
he at least  
> thumbed through M&D before setting forth on the Baroque Cycle. 
 
Fer shure... and I suspect Barth's Sot-Weed Factor and/or Giles Goat-Boy as
well. For me it's a classic case of the anxiety (and injustice) of
influence: I enjoyed S's Snow Crash and Diamond Age on their own terms, but
Cryptonomicon and especially the Baroque Cycle (which left me cool for long
stretches of the first book, and which I bailed out of a short way into the
second) suffered in my estimation precisely because of the standard set by
Pynchon. Unfair, but there it is.
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