We’re into Fall! What do we think about the book so far and just how wrong are we about what’s going to come next? First off though, we have to talk more about Neal Stephenson and the ideas he likes to write about. Or doesn’t.
Is Neal talking against Ursula K. Leguin specifically in this video? We Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on Getting Big Stuff Done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE0n_5qPmRM
Contrasting Snow Crash vs Fall vs Ready Player One.
How much of REAMDE is necessary? Is this the culmination of the shared Stephenson universe?
How does this Part One work on its own? How much legal wrangling lies ahead?
Qualia is important.
Why structure the book this way? Would structuring it differently work better for the books intended audience?
Is this a humanist text? A transhumanist one?
How is it for a person who usually reads “themes first” books to dive into a “plot first” text?
Just how High Fantasy might this book get?
Get ready for next week. There’s FAKE NEWS ahead.
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