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At risk of derailing the conversation, I finished Cryptonomicon earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Any recommendations for similar books?

• brk 2y ago
  Snowcrash? REAMDE was also good.
  • themadturk 2y ago
    So nice to find someone else who enjoyed REAMDE.
    • james_marks 2y ago
      My favorite of his, and I’ve read most of them.
  • jaggederest 2y ago
    The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is the sequel to Snow Crash, and is excellent and in many ways more relevant and subversive now, given that more or less Snow Crash has passed into retrofuturism as all the things kind of happened, like Jules Verne.
• eru 2y ago
  The Baroque Cycle by the same author. I didn't like Snowcrash nearly as much. His Diamond Age is pretty good, too.
• roughly 2y ago
  If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem is amazing.
  • xarope 2y ago
    yes, give it a try and try to get past the first few chapters. The first time I read it, the world building almost put me to sleep. Somehow I decided to give it another try on a long flight, and this time I grok'd the world building, and thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through to the end.
  • 0xEF 2y ago
    Anthem is my favorite Stephenson book, by far. My copy is the only book I own with a broken binding because I've read it too many times. I don't think that one gets enough attention, especially from a world building and technical perspective.
• linsomniac 2y ago
  I thought Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir had a similar "feel", though it's more future-looking rather than past looking. Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez is another book (printed as two books, because reasons) that is ~1K pages but I've read 3 times (like Cryptonomicon). Others in this thread have recommended The Baroque Cycle, but I just couldn't get into it. Ditto with Anathem. Maybe I should give them another try. However, I do love Diamond Age and Snowcrash.