The author of sprawling SF mega-novels has switched gears for a fast-moving adventure set between Russia and the US Neal Stephenson is known for enormous, sprawling, infodumpy mega-novels: all-encompassing works that extrapolate technological and social change into the near future or trace them through the past. His breakthrough book, 1992’s Snow Crash, is a cyberpunk technothriller set in part in the “metaverse” – Stephenson coined this term for immersive virtual reality long before Zuckerberg’s Facebook appropriated it.

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