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'Quicksilver' Website and Release Date
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."
welcome to goatse, fp!
Im not sure If I am supposed to know who this guy is (or any of the books he has written for that matter), and if I am stupid for not.
Are you secure enough in your masculinity to run 'man touch'?
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.
This is not the greatest sig in the world, this is just a tribute.
He's massively over-rated, but the nerds all love him! Pick and book and read it (maybe Snow Crash), and forget about the rest.
(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.)