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comment by forwardslash

This sounds like the premise of a few sci fi books.





histo_toxic  ·  3404 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson has this very premise at its core. Its a good read, but as a first book it is slightly less polished than his others.

forwardslash  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of! I remembered hearing it described, but haven't actually read it. Maybe I'll have to after my wife and I are finished Armada.

user-inactivated  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I liked Cryptonomicon better than Snow Crash, but they're both great. Snow Crash reads more like a comic book (in a good way) and Cryptonomicon seems more like a traditional narrative. Cryptonomicon is still a hell of a ride though!