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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Re:Baroque Cycle by sapbasisnerd · 2004-08-23 14:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

I still consider Snow Crash to be a classic, though, precisely for how light on it's proverbial feet it is. Based on that I might actually give it a try. I found Cryptonomicon to be 300 pages of good ideas and potential wrapped in 600 pages of selfindulgent crap. If ever Stephenson gets an editor who can keep the latter in check or learns to self edit (little hope of that) he could be a very good author...