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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9631166" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think it's overrated, I think it was pretty important, and really closed out an era of SF fiction. I think it is, however, "of its time".Like, when it hit in 1993, basically everything in it that wasn't satirizing cyberpunk was new, conceptually, to the people reading it, or the vast majority. It was wild.But now? Pretty much everything in it is either just how life is now (whoops), or has been absolutely done to death in the media since, particularly since the cyberpunk/synthwave revival (which started in what, 2015?). But even just the style of storytelling is much more like how stories are told now than how they were told then.And yeah, like, if you made a movie of it now it would probably be pretty mid and the only thing that would stand out would be the language-as-mind-virus thing. It certainly helps to illustrate how you need either ideas that remain shocking and provoking (which I think Frankenstein kind of does), even though they've been redone, or you need to tell a really good story and have strong characters - and I don't think Snow Crash is particularly strong there.</blockquote>