February: Fiasco by Stanisław Lem
March: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor
Discuss Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson in the comments below.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1966:
The book popularized the acronym TANSTAAFL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations credits this novel with the first printed appearance of the phrase "There's no free lunch", although the phrase and its abbreviation considerably predate the novel.
The virtual assistant Mycroft is named after a computer system from the novel.
Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho! • Foundation • The Three-Body Problem
(Score: 1) by Marvin on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:20AM (3 children)
Snow Crash is a book that Wiliam Gibson would write, if he could actually write :)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @08:36AM
Neal Stephenson is not fit to wipe William Gibson's flipflop.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by deimtee on Sunday January 06 2019, @10:16AM (1 child)
Most Gibson or Sterling books I quite liked. I don't know whose fault it was, but The Difference Engine by both is one of the very few SF books I could never finish. Every time I tried I just fell asleep.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday January 07 2019, @11:54PM
Had the same problem. I started it three or four times and just couldn't go there..... Then one day picked it up again and finally started to get it, then couldn't put it down until the end. (And I normally get every Gibson book as close to first-day-of-release as I can and devour it.)
This sig for rent.