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Some Remarks

By Neal Stephenson
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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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“I'm giving this 3 stars on the strength of a few of the shorter articles in here, especially the ones on the evolution of genre and the place of speculative fiction, but I was overall somewhat disappointed with this collection. Stephenson has the ability to make topics that seem like they would be boring actually very interesting. He highlights their importance and context in a way that makes them vital and makes you go "ohhhh" about a piece of the world that maybe you never concerned yourself with, but if you ever thought about it at all, probably realized you had zero concept of. He explains how things work and also why they work that way, going back to their beginnings and showing how processes evolved, talking about all the characters throughout history that shaped the processes with clarity and wit. He does that here with the longest article, a piece about underwater cable laying. I was into it to a point, but then it went on ridiculously long and in too-great detail and I eventually skipped the rest of it.”

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