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  1. Re:Done before and again... by jonbrewer · · Score: 1 · on Video Scratching Goes Mainstream

    the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.

    I think you've been reading too much Quicksilver.

  2. Re:Enoch Root question (Spoiler for cryptonomicon) by Phattypants · · Score: 1 · on Quicksilver
    From the interview found here.

    HC: What are some of the other links between Quicksilver and Cryptonomicon?

    NS: The links are somewhat loose, so this is not one of these situations where you've got to read one of the books to make sense of the others. There's a gap of about 300 years between the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon, and if you've read Cryptonomicon, you'll recognize some family names that are in common. You can infer that some of the families in the Baroque Cycle have descendents who show up later in Cryptonomicon. It's largely a family saga kind of connection. And then there's a character, Enoch Root, who possesses unnatural longevity and shows up in person in both of the books.

    HC: So it is the same Enoch Root in both of the books?

    NS: Yes.
  3. Books 2 and 3... by jea6 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Quicksilver

    For those of you already wondering when the next books will be out, Stephenson is trying a Matrix approach:

    HC: When can we hope to see the next volumes in the Baroque Cycle?

    NS: They're coming out at six-month intervals, so April 2004 for The Confusion, and then October 2004 for The System of the World.

    http://www.baroquecycle.com/interview.htm

  4. Sample Here by SLot · · Score: 2, Informative · on Quicksilver

    Here.

    Seems a little dry, IMO. I'll probably still buy the hardback.

  5. Let me guess, Philosophical Language? by jea6 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Our Solar System's Nomenclature Wars

    I hope they use Philosophical Language because the last time this was tried, Waterhouse helped Wilkins come up with Real Character.

  6. The New Diamond Age? by desertfish · · Score: 1 · on The Diamond Age

    I thought quicksilver was going to be the next Big Thing.

  7. On Beyond Pynchon by stanwirth · · Score: 1 · on 'Quicksilver' Website and Release Date

    Well I for one would like to see a full scholarly treatment of the four books: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon vs. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver .

    The parallels are more than skin deep, and Stephenson takes many of Pynchon's more interesting ideas further and on related-but-different topics. This serves serves to highlight some of the underlying ideas in the two Pynchon books, and provides a fascinating but slightly off key to decode the Pynchon. I've re-read them interleaved over the years, exceping Quicksilver of course.

    Stephenson's is a masterful trope .