NP:Stephenson and information flow

[Mark Kohut]

"not just one of the best novelists writing right now; he seems like the only one" http://ti.me/pgR348
 
Does he touch the metaphysical in his work? Or is he like a George Eliot of the modern world?
(not that there is anything wrong with THAT?) 
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