Stephenson Goes Baroque

Since I'm a bit of a crypto and crypto history enthusiast, I have been eagerly awaiting Neal Stephenson's new book, Quicksilver, ever since I read Cryptonomicon. Quicksilver will be set 300 years in the past. I don't read much fiction anymore since the vast majority of it is disappointing and not worth the rather steep prices, which are even more frightful overseas, but I always anxiously await new works from a few authors like Tom Wolfe [ who, from what I've read lately, is currently writing a campus novel I'm just itching to read ], Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley and Neal Stephenson. Quicksilver's pub date had been pushed back a few times so I signed up for a mailing list to notify me when the book would be forthcoming. I finally received an email and the end of the wait is near; The Baroque Cycle pre-publication hype has begun.

11 May 2003 at 21:31, Helsinki