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"I feel compelled to read this by its author influence on the genre. Nothing else about it, however, is compelling in the slightest. Whatever novelty this book once possessed has been sand blasted away by better authors. This writing feels masturbatory and self-congratulating while also being boring and tiresome in the worst ways. Sterling wants us to feast on his cleverness but it’s an empty meal." — Jul 22, 2026 02:49AM
"I feel compelled to read this by its author influence on the genre. Nothing else about it, however, is compelling in the slightest. Whatever novelty this book once possessed has been sand blasted away by better authors. This writing feels masturbatory and self-congratulating while also being boring and tiresome in the worst ways. Sterling wants us to feast on his cleverness but it’s an empty meal." — Jul 22, 2026 02:49AM
“Whoever he is, marry him and keep us in the style to which we’d like to become accustomed.” “He works in Public Relations.” “Whoever he is, murder him and make it look like an accident, but make sure you get away with his wallet,”
“The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“Well, when the fear of death seizes you—when the dark thoughts come—you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, ‘I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”
― Skin Deep
― Skin Deep
“There’s something remarkably artificial about a certain type of bureaucratic sterility, like even it can’t make up its mind whether or not it actually exists.”
― Pocket Apocalypse
― Pocket Apocalypse
William’s 2025 Year in Books
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