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JOLLIEST_ROGER

                                             May       26  2012
                                             September 13, 2013

                                                           (From comments
                                                            posted at the
I thought it interesting that                               Charles Stross
the (completely brilliant)                                  blog.)
novel "Schismatrix" seemed to
fall on deaf ears when first        Bruce Sterling:
out on the scene.                   The Velvet
                                    Underground of SF
     I heard to complaint
     that it was too
     "emotionally cold."                MONSTERS
                                        MULTIPLICITY
                                        SYMPATHY
While I like things like Neal
Stephenson's "Snow Crash" well
enough, the extreme enthusiasm
among my fellow nerds for this
watered-down, jokey form of
cyberpunk has always been a
little grating.


         That seems to be the formula at present:
         you can gaze into the abyss, but it'd
         better be a laugh-a-minute, light-hearted
         vision of a world on the brink of
         disaster, or else the fen are going to
         look for something a little less grim.

                                             And that's the approach of
                                             many Charles Stross
                                             novels, e.g. "Accelerando"



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