Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the same time (Cryptonomicon).Now he treats his legion of fans to Some Remarks, an enthralling collection of essays—Stephenson’s first nonfiction work since his long essay on technology, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, more than a decade ago—as well as new and previously published short writings both fiction and non.Some Remarks is a magnificent showcase of a brilliantly inventive mind and talent, as he discourses on everything from Sir Isaac Newton to Star Wars.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062024442 (0062024442)
ASIN: 62024442
Publish date: June 11th 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Anthologies,
Journalism,
Philosophy,
Short Stories
Published August 7th 2012. I’ve been reading Neal Stephenson for a long time, and I’ve been planning on re-reading him. Now that I’ve just read his very first collection of essays, this need is even greater. The man “touches” a soft spot in me… Not all of the essays are top notch, but the ones who...
Like Gibson's recent anthology of articles, this was fun to read and occasionally insightful. Some of the essays I had seen before. I liked the one about walking desks, and the final one about innovation: "Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age."