# Why haven't these books been made into movies?

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I certainly wouldn’t complain about _Snow Crash_ (although that novel has been unfairly diminished somewhat in my mind because of too much bloated dreck put out by Stephenson since it). They’d have to bump up Y.T.'s age a bit for some of the stuff in the book to fly today.

But I still think _Neuromancer_ makes a better movie. It’s a heist movie at its root with a diverse cast of fascinating characters. I can already picture how it should open, with Corto in the failed Operation Screaming Fist, before jumping into Henry Case’s story.

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