Male Lead: I am a somewhat handsome man who is active and capable and also a computer genius. Sometimes these qualities are split between two people. I will do some programming near the climax. It will help to save the day.
Female Lead: I am a somewhat attractive woman who is not a programmer, but is very intelligent and street-smart. I will have a sex scene. It may or may not be with the Male Lead. It will probably make you uncomfortable.
Neal Stephenson: Shut up so I can talk about my latest hobby for 40 pages.
THE END
4 comments:
Well, I suppose it's always good to have an outline. :)
Hold a second for some fact checking with the NS works I have read...
Snowcrash - Yup.
Diamond Age - Yup.
Cryptonomicon - Yup.
Stallion Gate - uh, from what I recall, kinda, yeah.
Anthem - Don't know- I could never find the Rosetta Stone language CDs so I could follow the story.
Quicksilver - Bailed on it. Dunno.
The only element you coould add is that all the stories (at least the ones I've read) end rather abruptly- sort of "Here I present you with all the pieces for the conclusion; Enjoy imagining the finale in your own mind."
TBG
Quicksilver definitely fits. It's basically Cryptonomicon but spread out over three books and there are honest-to-God peasants everywhere and also surgery without anesthetic and good grief I've been reading for three weeks and I'm still not done.
And there's still five books to go. I haven't gotten to those yet.
Stallion Gate...?
Thats what I get for working without a net...
That was Martin Cruz Smith. Oops.
Still follows the NS formulae.
:-/
TBG
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