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'Quicksilver' Website and Release Date

Posted by michael on from the geek-porn dept.

EvilBastard writes "Neil Stephenson's next book in the Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver, now has a publishing date of the 23rd of September, 2003. This book appears to follow the Shaftoe, Waterhouse and Root family line back to the early 18th Century. You can find a short extract online."

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  1. Re:For those of you who don't know who this is... by Eric+Savage · · Score: 0, Troll

    Insight into modern issues I might agree with. Great author? In short spurts maybe (like first 1/3 of Snow Crash) but often writes as if he's just trying to get the damn thing done (third 1/3 of Snow Crash). His stuff is good, and I read it, but seriously, this guy will be completely forgotten in 30 years.

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  2. Re:Enoch again? by alkali · · Score: 0, Troll
    Proposal: To accommodate spoilage, dirty jokes, etc., Slashcode should allow commenters to use a HTML-ish ROT13 tag when commenting. When submitted, the ROT13 tag would ROT13 the tagged text and add a ALT link that would show the decrypted text when mouseovered.

    (ROT13: encryption scheme under which A becomes M, B becomes N, etc. and vice versa. Not good for actual encryption; it is the online equivalent of placing something in an unsealed envelope marked "open only if you want to see what this says." It's hot fuvg, in my opinion.)