Grumble grumble... Quicksilver
Neil Stephenson, author of the magnificent nanotech-future dystopia The Diamond Age, has just published Quicksilver, a prequel to Cryptonomicon.
I've not read Cryptonomicon, which is unfortunate, since it seems to involve cryptography, game theory, and the Wandering Jew, three topics in which I have a passing interest. But it's huge, and I'm never going to have time to read it.
Now Stephenson's come up with a historical novel featuring characters I might want to read about in historical locations which fascinate me. The bastard. I'm taking it as a personal affront, and deciding that he wants to ruin my law career.
If he weren't already quite friendly to me, I'd blame The Yin Blog for having pointed this out to me. Twice.
Maybe I'll have time to read it over Christmas.
Comments
I would pass on it. You can probably glean all you need to glean from the blogosphere. lol
Posted by: Balasubramani | September 24, 2003 12:26 PM
But The Diamond Age was so good! Seriously, as sci-fi goes, it was just what it needed to be: a look at what life becomes when, due to a disruptive technology, the fundamental economics of scarcity which have heretofore governed a society fall apart.
Oh, by the way, thanks for the link from your site!
Posted by: A. Rickey | September 24, 2003 12:36 PM
I was mildly interested in reading Quicksilver until I read a review which mentioned that it's something like 3000 pages long. I hope that's not true, but if it is that sort of dims my enthusiasm rather quickly. A pity, since what I've read of Stephenson's writing I've rather enjoyed.
doleiPosted by: Len Cleavelin | September 24, 2003 01:46 PM