guernican, while I'll grant you some similarities between snowcrash and neuromancer (I assume that's the Gibson novel you're referring to) I wouldn't say Stephenson was trying "so, so hard" to be Gibson. They're two completely different styles to my reading.

Now Stephenson writing the same book twice (I'm looking at you "baroque cycle"), that's another matter entirely.

desp, the fact that the original post #2 got removed thereby bumping your post to #2 (a rant about post #2) makes my day :)