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Stefen’s Bookclub – September
September 5, 2017 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
With all the buzz about the movie adaptation of Earnest Cline’s Ready Player One and a general interest in near future dystopia, I thought a cyberpunk book might be appropriate. True, we have read Neuromancer by William Gibson, but a quick check showed that was back in 2014. In any event, Snow Crash is quite different to Neuromancer. It’s got prophetic guesses about technology (many of which turned out to be true) in true cyberpunk style, but then adds another layer of interesting metaphysics and some absurdist humour. It also has one of my favourite opening chapters. It was a huge hit when it was first released twenty five years ago and I’m interested in how the group responds to it now.