Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing Hardcover - 2012
by Neal Stephenson
Gathered together for the first time, a breathtaking collection of nonfiction essays from the acclaimed number-one "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Reamde."
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One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels--works colossal in vision and mind-boggling in complexity. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the products of a keen and adventurous intellect. Not surprisingly, Stephenson is regularly asked to contribute articles, lectures, and essays to numerous outlets, from major newspapers and cutting-edge magazines to college symposia. This remarkable collection brings together previously published short writings, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a new essay (and an extremely short story) created specifically for this volume.
Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not); the future of publishing and the origins of his novels. Playful and provocative, Some Remarks displays Stephenson's opinions and ideas on:
- The Internet, our dwindling national attention span, and the cultural importance of books and bookishness
- Waco, religion, and the cluelessness of secular society
- Metaphysics and the battle between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- The laying of the longest wire on Earth--and why it matters to you
- Technology, freedom, commerce, and the Chinese
- How Star Wars and 300 mirror who we are today and what that spells for our future
- Modern Jedi knights, a.k.a. scientists and technologists, and why they are admired and feared by both the left and the right
By turns amusing and profound, critical and celebratory, yet always entertaining, Some Remarks offers a fascinating look into the prismatic mind of this extraordinary writer.
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- Title Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
- Author Neal Stephenson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2012-08
- ISBN 9780062024435 / 0062024434
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
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- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects American essays - 21st century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012026805
- Dewey Decimal Code 824.92
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Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/2012, Page 16
- Entertainment Weekly, 08/10/2012, Page 78
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 03/01/2012, Page 72
- Publishers Weekly, 06/25/2012, Page 161
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