“The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.”

— Neal Stephenson , book Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

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American science fiction writer 1959

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