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Ask Neal Stephenson

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-gilded-age dept.

Our latest Slashdot interview victim... err... guest... is Neal Stephenson, author of (among others) Snow Crash, CRYPTONOMICON, the much-discussed essay, In the Beginning was the Command Line, and more recently a series of books he calls The Baroque Cycle. (Last month Slashdot reviewed the series' third volume, The System of the World.) Now you can ask Neal whatever you want. As usual, we'll send him 10 -12 of the highest-moderated questions and post his answers verbatim when we get them back.

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  1. A Serious Question by fizban · · Score: 1, Troll

    Neal,

    How do you deal with the tumultuous hordes of fanboys on Slashdot relating their every waking moment to some aspect of your novels? What's it like to have to deal with that amount of slavering attention?

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  2. Re:Genres of future works? by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 1, Troll

    I enjoyed all of Snow Crash, in fact I re-read it a couple of years ago. What didn't you like about the last third of it? Was it the setting change from dystopic suburbia to the sea world and the shift away from Hiro Protaganist to shifting the point of view to Aleut bad guy Raven? Or what?

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