Date: 2008-11-14 04:34 pm (UTC)
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Lots of early Stephenson books (Snow Crash, Diamond Age, The Big U) feature hive-mind, pre-logical villains. He talks about it a lot more in the other two, how when the two hemispheres of the brain are separated you're more prone to believing in superstition, etc.

I never liked it as much as his real villains. It seemed like a cheap way to stick Orcs into sci-fi. The Dentist was way scarier.

Anathem does not have anything like that, and the plot doesn't fall apart at the end. The ending is actually the best part.

Same goes for his two collaborations, The Cobweb and Interface. Cobweb is actually really good. Imagine if Tom Clancy knew how to, you know, write.
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