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I don't believe that you can do justice to Snow Crash in just an hour. Its going to be visually great, but with all the complexity and depth stripped out.

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I think they mean each episode is one hour long, not the full show.

But Amazon usually produces pilots for shows before deciding on a full season order. Or has this changed?

So? I would just be the first episode. You don’t do the whole book in an hour.

So, they need to sell people in that first hour, to get the chance of telling the rest of the story.

Snow crash has one of the best opening chapters of any novel I’ve read.

Though the central premise feels somewhat dated now that everybody assumes self driving cars are around the corner.

Isn't the opening of Snow Crash the scene where Hiro is delivering the pizza and he crashes his car and YT comes along and delivers the pizza for him?

If you can't sell an audience on the strength of that opening, you shouldn't be making television.

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