![]() Here’s when one of the novel’s main characters has been infected with the nano and enters a Drummer tunnel complex. Each one of them is in themself a walking computing cluster. This overrides the host’s own consciousness, making each Drummer a mindless slave to their nanoparticles. They’re a human computer cluster.Įvery Drummer is infected with nanocomputers, microscopic smart particles that run code and talk to each other as well as to the bodily information networks of their host – importantly the brain. But I did get this about the subterranean Drummer subculture. I found the ending confusing and dissatisfying, possibly because I wasn’t entirely clued in to what happened or what it meant. This 1995 book bursts with far-out motifs and ideas, to the extent that I can’t say I really understood everything very well when reading it back then. And somehow I have now come to think of one of his weirdest ideas: the subterranean orgy computer in The Diamond Age. I have previously reviewed his 2008 novel Anathem here. Neal Stephenson is an unusually inventive writer of historical and futuristic fiction.
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