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A wave of Neo-Fascists have been elected into government, people are desperate, they turn to the relationship that one Japanese video game maker has with his Danish lover, while in the meanwhile, a young girl’s magazine calls for revolution…

How do these interact? Find out in Will Gibson’s

Emergent Actor

Nah second thought this is totally a Neal Stephenson thing Will Gibson wouldn’t write this schlock

it can’t be neal stephenson unless it gets pseudo-dickian and incomprehensible as fuck in the last act. what’s the twist

It’s not Dickian, it’s literally Victorian, Stephenson maximizes for thread elaboration like a by-the-word serializer and then ends things by exhausted abandon

i mean philip-k-dickian in that the sense of fugue-state dissociation from ‘reality’ gets cranked way the fuck up out of nowhere. the basic structure of every stephenson book is established way back in the big u where the first half of the book is a funny light satire on dorm life at a land-grant college and by the end it turns out everyone might be mind-controlled by a fucking box fan

The Baroque Cycle was an excuse to publish 3,000 pages of plot/commentary/cryptography before he had to improvise an ending

I suspect we’re aggressively agreeing with each other at this point