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...""

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Re:Neal Stephenson...

[irokie]

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.