* In light of this, it’s no surprise that Burroughs published The Cat Inside, which celebrates his love of animals. Similarly, it makes sense that author Neal Stephenson preceded his cyberpunk classic Snow Crash with Zodiac, whose protagonist is a radically anticorporate environmentalist, and for that matter that Merzbow, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Nine Inch Nails have all publicly supported PETA.