Starship Troopers, on the other hand, is an ingenious dystopian novel that can only have been written by a left-wing antimilitarist. A friend of mine actually had to be told that Heinlein was being serious, like Orwell was when he wrote 1984, which is still one of the most influential works on how to organize society.
Snowcrash was thoroughly enjoyable. The fictional accounts of how ancient Sumerian “works” were interesting and sometimes even thrilling, even though the idea is actually quite ridiculous to anyone who knows about languages. Well, the story was good enough that I didn’t care…
