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Salon Interviews Neal Stephenson
edibleplastic writes "Salon has a great interview with Neal Stephenson, author of such science fiction favorites as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver. He discusses his views on the scientific community (both past and present), the world of science fiction, and writing in general. "I think there are common threads between writing and programming... All I'm saying is that the thing you're making -- the novel or the computer program -- has got a very complicated and finely wrought hierarchical structure to it. The structure has to work right or the whole thing fails. But the only way you can work on it is by hitting one character at a time...""
He's just playing the group that he thinks is most likely to be the audience that would buy his books...geeks.
Little does he know that we only want to know where we can download his ebooks for free.
but ever since snowcrash he's been going down hill. cryptonomicon was merely good. quicksilver is really impressive for teh depth of the research, but once you get past that, it's 800 pages of poilitics set in the 17th century.
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
I don't know about his other books, but after all the adolation from this website, I picked up Cryptonomicon from the library to give it a shot.
/.'ers find engaging literature then I may just have to go elsewhere to find decent book reviews.
First 100 pages: sucked! It was like reading an 8th grader's book report about each character. If this is what
Well if you're going that route you could say it started about 2/3 the way through snow crash. This guy needs to learn how to end a book. They start off great and exciting, settle down a bit, and then wimp out.
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