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SinisterPants

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21. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:41 AM

Apr 2020

It is a fat, glorious, escapist time travel romp. Stephenson (Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Reamde) is in top form here. It's funny and poignant and thought-provoking. 900 pages of bliss when you want nothing to do with reality.

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