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Meiteron posted:Speaking of pages, a couple years ago I got a chance to head to Seattle and visit the science and fiction museum that's in the Seattle Centre there when the original manuscript was still on display. Stephenson wrote the entire thing out on paper first, in longhand, before actually digitizing it for printing. This is from days ago but, Not only did he hand write the whole manuscript, he also used three different fountain pens and inks for each of the main characters.
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As well as Roger Bacon, John Dee, The Count of St. Germaine.
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Apr 18, 2014 20:22
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Semi-related: Anyone pickup Hieroglyph?
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The first time I tried reading Anathem I made it about 120 pages and set it down. I was disappointed and couldn't understand what the gently caress was going on. Picked it up again about 8 months later and boy was I wrong. It's pretty good. Maybe it's just me, but I find this true of any author worth a drat at world building. Once you get used to the prose and pacing everything just clicks. I had the same problem with the first half of Quicksilver. Really glad I didn't give up on that one.
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Jan 26, 2015 21:26
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Still bothered by the Mars colony loose thread.
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Aug 19, 2015 19:38
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mdemone posted:Since that was obviously intentional, I'm pretty sure we are meant to conclude that they died badly, because c'mon, there's no fuckin' way. That's what I'm going with too. Just that it's never mentioned again is weird.
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Aug 20, 2015 01:25
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You could always invest that money in cowrie shells.
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Aug 22, 2015 19:33
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I'll just leave this here.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:25
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dublish posted:Where and when did you get those, and is there any chance I might get that set for myself? They're not mine, unfortunately. Morrow / Hillhouse released them around '04/'05. Just search: The Baroque Cycle Deluxe Edition. I keep looking them up every few years and always end up talking myself out of them. A while back it seemed that Quicksilver was the hardest to find, but after looking around yesterday it looks like The Confusion is the fly in the ointment right now.
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Oct 23, 2015 15:47
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I read Interface during Barrack Obama's run for candidacy up to the DNC. It made me a little  . I enjoyed both it and Cobweb but really thought they were closer to the goal of airport fiction than Reamde. Maybe it had something to do with his uncle's influence.Has anyone listened to the unabridged audio of Cryptanomicon? I keep meaning to check it out, but at forty hours I may just re-read it.
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Feb 6, 2016 22:00
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Matt O'Dowd and Neal Stephenson have a chat on the newest episode of Space Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjmlwdUK4RE
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Aug 6, 2016 21:02
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It's been ages, but if I remember correctly the fist 2/3 of Quicksilver is really the set-up or forward for the whole story. It's really hard to get through, but well worth it in the end. I'm not a huge European history buff and distinctly remember having my laptop open to Wikipedia while I was reading the first half. Re: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. I hopped over to goodreads to see if there was any more discussion or info on the upcoming book and noticed that there was another entry for a separate upcoming book titled Fall. it's description was: pitched as a high-tech retelling of PARADISE LOST featuring some characters from REAMDE. Is this the same thing? I've never known Stephenson to release two books in the same year.
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I just picked up Void Star. While I'm not far enough into it to recommend yet, it definitely has some Gibson/Stephenson touches to it.
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