Maybe he's thinking about SF, Science Fiction or SciFi, but that still leaves me with the problem of finding a definition that this book can exceed. I'm not sure as to what is meant by "sci-fiction" (don't even get me started on "cy-fi") or what definition Mr. But there's certainly no excuse as to why the editor at RoC decided to use it on the back of the book. Martin James normally reviews music for Muzik and Melody Make, which kind of excuses him from not knowing what he's talking about, even if he could have exercised his right to shut up. A modern classic in every sense" – Martin James in Muzik. "A superb book which far exceeds the limiting definitions of either sci-fiction or cy-fi. Normally I don't read other people's reviews and I certainly don't comment on them here, but this time I've come across something so stupid, so shiningly pure in it's ignorance that silence would be a crime. But once in a while one has to let go of ones prejudices and try something different, no matter how much one has come to love to hate a thing.īut firstly, I have to say something about a promotional quote on the back of the book. I once tried reading Mona Lisa Overdrive, but there's a limit to how badly written a book can be and still deserve to be read.
Never getting into the Cyberpunk thing and hating the much-hyped use of the word Cyber, I've stayed away from everything that fell within the Cyberpunk category, with William Gibson as the centre of my self-inflicted ignorance. Snow crash is an acclaimed speculative fiction novel by the award winning author Neal Stephenson.
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