Re: BOOK: Cryptonomicon (Was "extropian and transhuman publicity")

Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:34:05 PDT

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:46:02 -0700 "E. Shaun Russell" <e_shaun@uniserve.com> writes:
> <snip encomium>, but contains far more signal than either of those
authors
>could ever muster.

It looked to me as though it was written in a fractal style, with layers of elaborations,
added to the plot, eventually even treating the hypothetical thoughts of significant characters as plot elements with self-similar logic.

It must have been a bitch to edit and pace.



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