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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.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Sunday January 06 2019, @10:24AM (1 child)
I like most of Stephensons books, but I think he needs more training in how to end a book. He writes a great intro, and then many, many, pages of engaging story, but at some point it is like "oh, I have to finish this soon. Here's a bunch of quick wrap-ups for the plot points I care about, the rest can go hang.".
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 06 2019, @11:14AM
He learned, and finished Anathem and wrapped things up in the end, more or less. Nothing can touch Tolkien's conclusions at the end of LoTR, of course.
Your complaint is sort of old, but then, by now, so is Anathem.