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This book created the term metaverse and for that, it deserves lots of credit. As for the writing, sort of Hunter S Thompson on speed, I'd say. Its character development is thin, but the dim picture of this particular mafioso dystopia was relatively unique (think of Biff's paradise in 2015 in Back to the Future) and frankly pretty fun to read. There is some humor here, but the most enjoyment is just some of the ideas around virtual reality and then reflecting on how he sort of nailed it from a t
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Frisk sci-fi som sikkert var like gøy å skrive som den var å lese. Kapitalisme-satiren er så fullstendig av hengslene at omtrent alt er mulig i denne boka, hvor menneskene bor i noen slags enklaver med kommersielle særpreg som kan likne på visse amerikanske institusjoner som McDonalds og Disneyworld, bare med boliger og privatpoliti som vokter inngangen. En av karakterene blei så hardt skada i Vietnamkrigen at han mista omtrent alle lemmer, men istedenfor å ha protese har han valgt å bygges inn
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Feb 08, 2020
Vigneswara Prabhu
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Kirk
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