[xarope]

Someone write a novel please. Not sure who will be more appropriate: Stross (more fun?), Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?).

[ErroneousBosh]

> Stephenson (more of a slog through the first 600 pages, then an abrupt 180 and frenetic action in the last 100 with newly introduced, yet game-changing characters?).

With the six pages in the middle where he may as well say "Right, I had to learn a lot of algebra for compiler optimisation to make this bit work, so now you get to learn it too"

[johanvts]

Fits well with William Gibson. The Turing-police will visit anybody who consumes more than 5 yearly vapes.

[ErroneousBosh]

I see there's a TV adaptation of Neuromancer coming out.

I'm a little disappointed that they didn't have it directed by an AI reconstruction of David Lynch, because that would have been so very fitting.

[protocolture]

Stross, because you get the added value of seeing him hate any new concepts he uses 10+ years later.

[QuadrupleA]

Cory Doctorow perhaps? At first glance I thought the OP was quoting him.

[trenchpilgrim]

This was literally a plot element in "Big Brother" - the protagonists use modded xboxes to create a mesh network to avoid government surveillance.

[jaredhallen]

Agreed on the ridiculous page counts, but I don't find Stephenson's pages a slog. Exhausting, maybe. There's a lot going on. But he makes me laugh. I'd like to meet that guy.

[ddalex]

I really love Stephenson's world building and detailed research, but I get the feeling he himself gets bored with the book at a certain point :)

So I vote Stross

[officeplant]

It's not the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards podcast has a pretty easy read[1]. It's also offered as a free audiobook read by him as a series of podcasts.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution

Might not be what you want if you want more technical & hacking versus dystopian capitalism collapse. But he gets bonus points for Texas getting nuked as a lore point.

[shadyKeystrokes]

Then a end midsentence and a black page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War closest you can get to vape insurgency