It has not been hard for me to decide which novel I think should win this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. There are, for starters, two nominees I neither particularly admire nor particularly like… more →
Torque Controltgrignon wrote 3 days ago: This has been the first Neal Stephenson novel I finished but it won’t be the last. I tried to … more →
range wrote 4 days ago: Lloyd explains why Pinker and Gladwell don’t agree, which is partly based upon Gladwell’ … more →
davekay wrote 1 week ago: The awesome Queensland Writers Centre (did I mention they are awesome) undertook a blog tour recentl … more →
mirror2image wrote 1 week ago: At The n-Category Café David Corfield is talking about mathematical emotions. This is about ‘emotion … more →
matteilar wrote 3 weeks ago: This week has been awful. But at the end of it, I dropped my chemistry class, so maybe the rest of t … more →
Tim Stevens wrote 3 weeks ago: Slashdot has been conducting a Q&A between readers and Neal Stephenson. Despite his disappointin … more →
davekay wrote 1 month ago: This book could be considered the fourth book in the Baroque Cycle, although it was actually written … more →
byronv2 wrote 1 month ago: Apologies for not updating for so long, mostly due to personal reasons. The group has been continuin … more →
karlsrjs wrote 1 month ago: Jake Karlsruher A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…. Neal Stephenson: Who would win in a figh … more →
foreigntrains wrote 1 month ago: Hi. This blog is mainly for my amusement (and, just to warn you, I’m easily amused). More spec … more →
liadangreylady wrote 1 month ago: The LA (and actually the whole world) of Snow Crash is a place where people are separate from each o … more →
theophildentchev wrote 1 month ago: by Theo Dentchev Video games today are the closest thing we have to a commercially available virtual … more →
almeidmd wrote 1 month ago: Matt Almeida Snow Crash and LOTRO both include sword and spear fighting, but the different depiction … more →
henryac wrote 1 month ago: By Aneel Henry “What the @#$% happened to my tires?” The tires square shape looked unnatural in the … more →
krs5603 wrote 1 month ago: Combat is a significant part of both the novel Snow Crash and the game Lord of the Rings Online, but … more →
aidreeahnuh wrote 1 month ago: Before fully grasping the concepts of the Metaverse in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, I imagined the … more →
whitleyrr wrote 1 month ago: So, I just finished China Mieville’s much hyped Iron Council. Ehhh. He has such good ideas, … more →
Jonathan Danz wrote 2 months ago: I cannot recommend this enough. Book trailers are no longer novel (that pun’s free of charge). … more →
godardsletterboxes wrote 2 months ago: There is another list I have been pointed to kindly by Matthew about science fiction by women and pe … more →