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…
Baroque Cycle, Books, Quicksilver, System of the World, The Confusion
FlyingSinger has a brief review of Anathem over here at his blog. But what caught my attention is that he read it on an iPhone with the Kindle SW?!? I mean WOW that is tenacity, I mean the finger-swipes alone have me thinking that the poor guy will need some kind of joint replacement! But anyway I guess it beats lugging an almost 900 page book around for a couple weeks…
OK, I finally got around to watching this weeks Fringe. And I can’t help but think of a certain book called Snow Crash. Don’t get me wrong for some reason I am totally sucked into this show and enjoy it greatly. But a computer virus that melts people’s brains. Cool, but I have to question the quality of brain matter that would randomly click on a pop-up window like that…every IT person’s dream come true worst nightmare I mean what would I do if no one clicked on that stuff!
John Scalzi, who should have put one his books on that list I mean come on Old Man’s War would be a movie I’d go see!…anyway, has an article on the SciFi Scanner blog of books that would make good SciFi movies. And his first pick Snow Crash. I have to admit that I’m still surprised that someone has not tried this by now, but maybe this is to Mr. Stephenson’s credit that a horrible movie has not been released and that we can hold out hope that eventually (before all the stuff in the book comes into being hopefully!) a quality motion picture will come out of this.
Ran across this post on Interaction by Andy, and guess who is on the list for Best Novel, OK I’ll tell you Neal Stephenson. He is in pretty good company but I am also slightly biased too.
Just in time for the Holidays there is a new contest over at EOS Books Blog where you can win a SIGNED copy of Anathem, Anathem CD and t-shirt, plus a special advance reader copy of The Confusion. Hurry.
Here is the Onion AV Club interview with Mr. Stephenson, well worth a read.
I was trolling around and found this, the Subterranean Press edition of Snow Crash. I am a bit too late it seems but better late than never! Sounds pretty neat, I naturally went to check out Amazon and found that there are a few of the signed editions available out there. It is just a wee bit out of my price range, but have any of you seen this in person? Is it as cool as it sounds and maybe worth the $200+ for the signed edition? Maybe something to think about for those still making out Christmas lists.
Over here is a very good Der Spiegel interview with Mr. Stephenson, with a little about his past books, prophetic fortelling current events, and Facebook Doppelgangers’. Not any earth-shattering new revelations but a good interview and worth the read.
OK I was installing and configuring an installation of RT and I went to change the default password for the root user in RT and the REAL name that was entered Enoch Root. And I chuckeled to myself and immeadatly began writing this post. Why? Well I now I am not sure but there it is. Now back to work…