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user-inactivated · 3150 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let's create a list of essential scifi books
I loved Cryptonomicon. It's really fun as an affectionate parody of the tinfoil hatty corners of computer culture, if you've spent a lot of time around them. I can't imagine enjoying it without being part of the community it was parodying, and I've never gotten more than a hundred pages into anything else he wrote, but Cryptonomicon is still the only scifi novel I know not written by Charles Stross that involves computing without being cringeworthy. Not enough to make it "essential", but I'm glad it exists.