HarperCollins had this on their site, I ran into it this morning. Have to wait until September (thank you for helping me realize that this happens to be the ninth month in our calendar) 13th but that is not too long to wait I mean after all we found out about the book deal quite a while ago…but it looks like a short one 960 pages. Other than that not much else for details on site. It will be nice to have a good book this fall, wow here I am looking forward to fall and we still have snow on the ground around here. I mean that is two whole seasons and almost seven months away…
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Catching up on xkcd and it is real just be careful in processing the answer if you do ask.
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Here is the link to the “Here Be Dragons” February 3rd event. There are two videos featuring talks with Mr. Stephenson on the panel.
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Neal talks about Rockets over at Slate, check it out here.
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Here is some info on a serialized story created by Mr. Stephenson and being written by himself and Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo. So that right there is pretty interesting, but now for the interesting part is that it is being sold/told via a custom app available for your iPhone/iEtc, Kindle and Android. They have a Facebook page that has the details about the launch that takes places Tuesday at the SF App Show, so if you are in San Francisco you might want to check it out.
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Well browsing Gizmodo and found that. There it was the Deliverator v0.3, so we are what 5 years away from pizza delivering ninjas! It is just that right now they are gaining street cred and ninja skills on mopeds in the Philippines.
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EOS books has a post that the paperback of Anathem available weighing in at 1008 pages. That my friends is a lot of book.
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Io9 has a story that Mr. Stephenson has just agreed to a new deal that comes with a significant sum of money and here is the but it is classified as a Thriller. Is that a big deal to you? I am still not sure if that means that the present age is creepy enough that there is more fiction and less science or it is going to be more a departure from past works and move in a new direction…I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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While not Van Eck Phreaking, being able to eavesdrop on what is being typed in a different room by monitoring the common ground wire of the electic outlet is still cool. The BBC’s article Snooping through the power socket outlines the attack.
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Lisa Gold is instructing a class in Research for Writers, still time to register if you are in the Seattle area. Ms Gold is also the researcher that worked with Neal Stephenson on the Baroque Trilogy. So if that is not a ringing endorsement for her class, then here is a quote from her site from the man himself…
“Ms. Gold roams at ease through the most difficult and recondite topics, like an Indiana Jones of the world of letters.” –-Neal Stephenson
And that is pre-crystal skull Indy right there!
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