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Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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I preferred Anathem over Snow Crash but they're very different, for instance Anathem has a very slow start. I thought the Sprawl sequence (Neuromancer etc) got more and more like Snow Crash with each book.
I loved Anathem, and the fact that it takes 300 pages before anything happens is wonderful. It's been 15 years or so since I read it once and I still remember most of it; while I read Diamond Age twice but don't have much that got retained over a decade later
Oh absolutely. I was kinda disappointed when it turned into a relatively standard action adventure near the end. I was hoping for a couple hundred more pages of slice-of-math-life.
Cyberpunk as a genre is generally self aware that it's a ridiculous noir pastiche and leans into it for camp value even early on.