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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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…
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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!
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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.
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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.
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