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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This book also basically predicted cryptocurrency (but not the blockchain stuff)

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I had a long flight so I took along Reamde.

I'd read it twice before, but damned if it didn't hook me up again. I got to the first airport around 10 am and didn't get home until 3 am. Saved my sanity.

For the uninitiated, Reamde involves the kidnapped niece of a billionaire game maker; the game is really fun and also a money laundering operation. There are terrorists, Right Wing militias, undercover spies, demented science fiction authors, and a bear skin rug.