Kari
Stephenson, if others haven't told you yet, became very hot with Snow Crash
(1992), but I prefer The Diamond Age (1995) & then the sort of SF, sort of
WW2 invented history Cryptonomicon (1999), the frist of a proposed trilogy
(& sill 918 pages long, & a great read). Born (1959) in Fort Meade
Maryland, grew up in Champaigne-Urbana, Illinois & Ames, Iowa, now lives in
the Pacific Northwest (though he spent some time in Boston). Any chance you
knew him in anh of those places? Snow Crash was a late entry in the
cyberpunk sweepstakes . . .
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I'm going to swim for my life
to another shore. The human shore's
too much
You can speak. You're on safe
ground, you mandala, you. I'm
getting out of here
Charles Olson
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