snow-crash=six-string samurai

[etopiei]

I'm reading snow-crash and I'm noticing a startling similarity to six-string samurai. You've got a main charactor who is both a samurai warrior (whatever, close enough), with swords and whit, who also has one other impressive skill. Guitar in one case, hacking in the other. You've got your small cute sidekick, a bit older in snow-crash, but there's a similarity in that she doesn't fight, and she can do a number of things the main charactor can't, surf, be small, pick locks, be not a dufus. In six-string samurai it's the sidekick can fix old mechanical shit.

Just an interesting parallel I think. Both awsome stories, with awsome imagary, and awsome charactors.