Blinkered vision
Mon, Mar 23 | from Malta Today
Malta Science fiction in particular, memorably described by one of its hottest contemporary authors, Neal Stephenson, as ‘idea porn’, has the potential to create a space for speculation and innovation to co-exist within a good yarn. That this sometimes comes ...
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Waiting for the End of the World
NY I'd like to get a little more thriller and literary thriller readers," he elaborated, and added Neal Stephenson and Michael Crichton as potential reference points—he spoke admiringly of Crichton's The Great Train Robbery: "It was like seeing Victorian ...
Fri, Apr 10 | from mediabistro.com
Let’s All Be Neighbours on Will Wright Street
Canada - Wright describes the worlds he creates as “metaverses,” a synonym for virtual reality drawn from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. ...
Fri, Feb 6 | from Walrus Magazine
I Am Really Bored Today | Orbiting Frog
But yes, sometimes everything is so much less exciting than the latest Neal Stephenson novel, a revisiting of Diablo II, making a stick-of-butter costume for Halloween, etc. I feel ya Rob :) ...
Tue, Nov 4 | from Orbiting Frog
Kristine Lowe: Overheard on the web today
Neal Stephenson: The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) · Michael Lewis: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street · Michael Lewis: Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street ...
Thu, Oct 30 | from Kristine Lowe
Anathem - Read it
If you enjoyed Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash or any of Stephenson’s earlier novels, get it and read it. If you haven’t read Stephenson, understand that he’s long-winded and this book even includes a couple of extra languages. See below:
Mon, Oct 27 | from andysocial (Livejournal)
A Web of Footnotes -- How We Will Read Books in the Future
Neal Stephenson reflects the annotation urge in his recent novel Anathem. He's put part of the novel's extensive glossary online, giving readers a place to go to look up some of the words he coined to describe life among the science ...
Sat, Oct 25 | from io9
Anathem
Why is Neal Stephenson so important? In my opinion, he is the most insightful writer working today. He opens your mind with a literary crowbar. You can never see the future, or the present, the same way after enjoying SNOW CRASH or ...
Thu, Oct 23 | from Seeker
Just read: "Anathem", Neal Stephenson
You have to be prepared to work through the first 50 or so pages, which introduce most of the unique vocabulary of the novel. They took me about 3 hours to read (but that may be in part because I can't read a word I don't know yet ...
Wed, Oct 22 | from sraets (Livejournal)
Neal Stephenson @ Google
Via Moonwatcher I found this video of Neal Stephenson who spoke at Google, as I’m currently reading Cryptonomicon this is interesting:
Sat, Oct 11 | from martin-koser.de
