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From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Vaporware for today
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 21:15:49 GMT
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flee@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:

>First, a quote:

>    There's only four things we do better than anyone else
>        music
>        movies
>        microcode (software)
>        high-speed pizza delivery

>    from _Snow Crash_ / Neal Stephenson (1992)

>I was thinking about "embed plot in the characters" along with
>"faddish diversion", and pizza delivery came to mind.

... did you know that SNOW CRASH started out as IF?  Stephenson wrote a 
lot of 68000 assembly language before he gave up and made it a conventional
novel.  (Though I'm not sure "conventional" applies to anything he writes.)

- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
