I'm curious if you have thoughts as to how Gibson's Virtual Light fits into this picture.
As I am too lazy to check the dates, I can't actually solidify my theory into one: either Stephenson read VL and wrote a parody that his editor didn't think was a parody and so ran it as a novel on its own merits, or Gibson read Snow Crash and said, "I can do so much better," and did.
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Date: 2008-06-08 05:04 am (UTC)As I am too lazy to check the dates, I can't actually solidify my theory into one: either Stephenson read VL and wrote a parody that his editor didn't think was a parody and so ran it as a novel on its own merits, or Gibson read Snow Crash and said, "I can do so much better," and did.