NP - Neal Stephenson

[Paul Cray]

I wonder how much M&D was an influence on "The Baroque Cycle". There's been
talk of a 1950s novel. Stephenson said somewhere that that's the really
interesting decade and there is a lot of stuff to mined there.

I enjoyed "Interface", which he wrote with his uncle, and has some
relevance to the present crisis.

On 30 January 2018 at 09:53, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly I’ve loved everything. Even Anathem. Yes, no kidding. Reamde was
> partly set in a place I lived in in China, so that was pretty cool.
>
> My first NS was Cryptonomicon and I adored it, I had read Pynchon first
> though and knew immediately where he was coming from.
>
> Diamond Age, for reasons I can’t quite remember is one of my all-time
> favourite books. Seriously.
>
>
> On 30 Jan 2018, at 05:49, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I dug Snow Crash. It was fat with fresh ideas (to me).
>
> Cryptonomicon, I got a few pages in.
>
> Diamond Age, I got about a third of the way through.
>
> J
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I also hated Snow Crash.  Simple TV-level BS.  Put me in the hate NS camp.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:50 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Snow Crash is great and quite original.
>>>
>>> 2018-01-30 2:16 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> I hated Cryptonimicom.  Only made it 1/3 in.  Complete lack of art,
>>>> nuance.  Life's too short.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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