[aidenn0]

That reminds me of a discussion a while back on whether or not "Snow Crash" was a parody. The main character was named "Hiro Protaganist" who worked delivering pizza for the mafia and there was a character who could take on pretty much any number of people completely unarmed, plus had a nuclear bomb wired to a dead-man's switch which caused quasi-governmental organizations to leave him alone.

That's two items, but there's more. However, cyberpunk in the early 90s was so gonzo that it was not an obvious parody to many readers.

[meowface]

I think it's one of those things that's more complex than being one or the other. It's simultaneously a parody and also a somewhat earnest prediction of a not-super-far-fetched potential future world.

[acjohnson55]

He wasn't completely unarmed, he had a knife that had an edge that was only one atom thick, IIRC.