Snow Crash wasn't really my cup of tea. Just something about the flow of the story stopped me from really enjoying it. However I love Cyberpunk so I'll talk about that.
A dystopia with the glossy sheen of technology. A loss of what is normally considered to be human to machine parts and cyber brains. What happens to a society where what you think and see can be recorded in your head and seen by others? As in most Cyberpunk stories a heavy hand of the government and military falls over the people. Police and anti-crime units evolve to find and respond to crime as soon as they are committed or in some cases even before. Of course as counter measures evolve so do those doing the crimes, hacking, cracking, cyber brain diving, whatever they find a way in.
This genre can really play to peoples fears of an overly oppressive government, which in reality we are seeing some of the things described in these novels. For me what I find really interesting is a lot of the political play that is described in series like Ghost in the Shell. The string being pulled by corporations and their interplay with the people just trying to do their jobs is really fascinating to me. As well as seeing the Major as someone who doesn't associate herself with a body but more as an idea or consciousness. Plus it has sweet spider tanks, what else could you want?
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