Snow Crash
Snow Crash was the first book my husband gave me to read when he saw what I was trying to write – back before our little girl was born – its one of the books I randomly left on a train during the pregnancy resulting in him having to buy a second copy becuase I was so ‘into’ it! I never lost a book until I was pregnant and then it was a regular occorance!
I have to say I initially struggled through the first bit – bearly comprehending the abbreviations and styalised speech but there was enough of interest to keep me struggling and then not far in something clicked – and I was in the story understanding it and even seeing the rare bit were technology has move beyound and so dated the futuristic book though not enough to worry about.
The story itself was full of strong images that filled my imagination as I imagined zooming about the matrix on a dragon-motor bike thing, I was therefore unsuprised to find out that the origonal concept was a graphic novel that got out of hand!
The book is full of fun little devices such as the main character being called Hiro Protagonist! ie Hero Protagonist – I realise that whilst I’m writing this novel I am doing this becuase I can’t spend the time trying to keep track of names and things and its easier to work out what I’ writing at this stage – some will change and some will stay!
I have to say that I learnt alot of new words that I probably should have already known such as protagonist! I also learnt avatar which I liked so tend to use when referring to the little pictures and things that represent me on forums and twitter and the like!
I also saw something in the book that I hadn’t seen since being a child playing our inextricably complicated games involving multi-worlds and the like (yes I was the one who organised these games!) and that is number-letter substitutions! And I like this so if Saffy is not avalible I’m 5affy in the book there was a Da5id and I know instantly what this was about though know people who couldn’t cope with this.
This was also the first time I saw the combination of actual human history – old ancient history combine with the new tech side of things and even the evolution of modern human – it was mixed up with linguistics and the general evolution of systems that I love so much.
I decided I wanted to write something like this! Something as good as this! It fed straight into half the things I was trying to do with the Crystal Singer but I started that when I was like 12-13 and as such the voice of that story sounds like erm… teenage fiction!
Anyway basically I think Snow Crash is a blinding novel and I think I might have to read the rest of Neal Stephenson’s novels – I had been avoiding this becuase of another story I am writing which is heavy on the nano-tech and I didn’t want to be influenced by fiction and have spent the last few years picking a molecular chemist’s brains on the subject but I think I’m there with my nanotech so I can move forward and enjoy his other novels 🙂
Posted: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 @ 8:48 am
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