The Big U
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780061568633 (0061568635)
Publish date: January 2nd 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
War,
Contemporary,
College,
Terrorism,
Students
A compelling, largely accurate satire of modern higher education that gets progressively more surreal, crazed and violent as it goes along. This was Stephenson's first published novel and you can tell - every apparently pointless chunk of bizarre exposition is actually important, the book is no long...
Stephenson's first published work is a bit uneven - the first half is an amusing satire of big campus life, and the second half pulls out all the stops, with an all-out war erupting, complete with mutant rats, nuclear waste, foreign nationals, bizarre cults, lots and lots of weaponry & violence - an...