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"If Snow Crash was a platformer, and the Baroque Cycle was a sprawling epic RPG, and Cryptonomicon a classic Lucasarts point-and-click adventure game (“use pipe organ with encrypted punch cards”), and Anathem an outlier for being some kind of a grave misstep, then Reamde — though ostensibly about an MMORPG — is actually Neal Stephenson’s first-person shooter."

If my friend Bo Fahs weren’t such a goddamn luddite he would be my favorite blogger.  (via whiskyvangoghgo)