The sci-fi icon who coined and popularized the term “metaverse” is taking a break from his literary career to build his own.

as revealed cabling“Snow Crash” author and cyberpunk pioneer Neal Stephenson is working with a crypto brother to create an open metaverse platform that its creators hope will be a more decentralized version of Big Tech metaverse types like the running Fortnite and Facebook.

“It’s as if Neal is coming down from the mountains like Gandalf, to restore the metaverse to an open, decentralized, creative order,” said robotics and augmented reality entrepreneur Rony Abovitz, who also acts as strategic advisor to Lamina1, the Stephenson is a company co-founded with the director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Peter Vessenes.

As Vessenes said cablingI was worried at first…