Post #116

Finished "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson today. It's funny how American authors are rarely satisfied with merely creating imaginary worlds and, having established them, immediately dip them into chaos. Dream landscapes, visions, parallel realities, twisted time travel, collective conscience, total break down of order, civil wars, you know the drill. Zelazny, Gibson, Stephenson, Herbert to a degree, and Philipp Dick above all else, the devourer of his own worlds. A strange culture-wide fascination with dismantling systems once they've grown past a certain point rather than seeing them unfold, and grow, and bloom. A pessimistic trait, if not outright paranoid. Doesn't mean I didn't like the book though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age