Stephenson’s The Diamond Age set for SciFi with a writer
Though lets be honest it probably won’t resemble Stephenson’s book. The Diamond Age is being produced by George Clooney (along with Grant Heslov).
More after the jump . . .
Contest – Anathem by Neal Stephenson (5 copies!)
Down to only five current contests and one ending later today and we just can’t allow that to happen! Today I have for you one of the books I’m currently reading, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. Stephenson is NY Times Best Selling author of the wonderful and monumental Baroque Cycle (all three novels won one of the [...]
Book Review – Snow Crash
Author: Neal Stephenson Publisher: Bantam Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1992 Having read Neal Stephenson’s absolutely brilliant Baroque Cycle and the only slightly less fantastic Cryptonomicon, I went into Snow Crash with high expectations. I didn’t come away disappointed. Snow Crash, in what seems to be Stephenson’s signature style, is at once intelligent, hilarious and a [...]
Book Review – The Confusion
Author: Neal Stephenson Publisher: William Heinemann Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2004 “The Confusion” constitutes Part II of Neal Stephenson’s gargantuan “Baroque Cycle”, an SF saga of “history, adventure, science, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death and alchemy” set in a late, mildly alternate 17th century. And it is a BIG book in more ways [...]
Book Review – Quicksilver
Author: Neal Stephenson Publisher: Harper Perennial Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2004 I started reading “Quicksilver” in the bath. I drowsily read the first chapter and a bit, thoroughly enjoying every page…and then I jumped out, got dried and dropped, exhausted, into bed. [Night passes] Morning comes. I wake; I sit up in bed drinking [...]
