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December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
The next poll will pick two books. I'd like to do it that way to keep a strong second place contender from being overlooked, and so I don't have to update the poll so often.
Discuss The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin in the comments below.
Snow Crash was written by Neal Stephenson in 1992. The novel features a bit of a Calexit scenario, and is known for popularizing the term "avatar" (paving the way for James Cameron's true magnum opus). These days, Neal moonlights as Magic Leap's "Chief Futurist". Seems appropriate.
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(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Thursday December 06 2018, @05:12PM
I’ll concede the point. But other examples abound. The more advanced western civilization, supposedly Christian, wiped out the Aztec and the Cherokee civilizations (amongst others). Consider that the Aztecs had human sacrifices, which could be seen as barbaric, but the Christians were not above burning people alive. My point being that material superiority is not correlated with moral (or philosophical) superiority.