Some Remarks Essays and Other Writing – Neal Stephenson
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Title: Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
Author: Neal Stephenson
Read By: Jeff Cummings
Copyright: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Total Duration: 11:36:21
Total MP3 Size: 319.27
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Book Description
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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; and 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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