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The Big U
Book • 1984
The Big U is Neal Stephenson's debut novel from 1984, chronicling the disillusionment of young intellectuals amid escalating absurdities at the American Megaversity, a single-building campus parodying real universities like Boston University.
The story escalates from satire to chaos, featuring giant radioactive rats, hordes of bats, a lab-made railgun, and a campus civil war, poking fun at nerds, LARPers, goddess worshippers, bureaucracy, and more.
The story escalates from satire to chaos, featuring giant radioactive rats, hordes of bats, a lab-made railgun, and a campus civil war, poking fun at nerds, LARPers, goddess worshippers, bureaucracy, and more.
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