Some Remarks : Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson (2013, Compact Disc,. Audiobook)

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What are the most talented in creative authors working today, Neil Stefenson is renowned for his exceptional novels – works colossal envision and mindboggling 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.

Stefanson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College town, video games to classic based sci-fi, how geeked them has become cool and how science-fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not) The future of publishing and the originals of his novels. Playful and provocative, some remarks display 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

• Modern Jedi knights, a.k.a. scientists and echnologists, and why they are admired and feared by both the

left and the right

• how Star Wars and 300 mirror who we are today – and what that spells for our future

• Technology, freedom, commerce, and the Chinese

By turns amusing and profound, critical and celebratory, yeah always entertaining, some remarks offer a fascinating look into the prismetic mind of this extraordinary writer.