Locus Interviews Neal Stephenson

Posted by timothy on Monday August 23, 2004 @12:44PM from the bold-new-do-for-the-greatest-living-writer dept.

Embedded Geek writes "Locus, the trade magazine of Science Fiction, has an interview with Neal Stephenson in their August issue. Excerpts can be found here. A teaser: 'The world of the 'Baroque Cycle' happens to be 99% factual history, or as close as I can come to it, but what readers of this kind of fiction are looking for is the ability to become immersed in a different world. That's why there is a big crossover between historical fiction and SF.' An interesting read for his long time fans or anyone just wondering what all the fuss is about." So this is a teaser for a teaser, but this makes me want to shell out the $8.

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A defence of apparent karma whoring (-1, offtopic) by zaxios · 2004-08-23 13:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I am able only to spend a limited time on Slashdot each day. It is then under the great weight of expectation that every minute here impels contribution. Not contribution to karma. No. Contribution to discussion. Alas, when a new article appears and I find myself with nothing in my personal experience to contribute, I can, if nothing else, express my mastery of Google, or, more pertinently, provide some subtle sign of accord with the others whose sense of dismay I share at finding, in my few spare moments, a Slashdot article of little interest to me.