Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing, (Paperback)

from nmele

This collection of short pieces from a long form master is an entertaining grab bag of ideas, reports and fiction. I took a particular interest in the heart of the book, his long report on the FLAG project, since I was working in Malaysia when Nynex announced that the new cable would land there. ...

from antao

"Geeking out or Vegging out. That Is The Question: Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson"Published August 7th 2012. I've been reading Neal Stephenson for a long time, and I've been planning on re-reading him. Now that I've just read his very first collection of essays, this need is even greater. The ma...

from wordsampersand

This is Stephenson at his best and worst. "Mother Earth, Mother Board"--a mammoth essay he wrote for Wired in the '90s about ocean-spanning data connections--takes up the bulk of this collection, and it is worth the price of entry. It's a fascinating piece that is, for the most part, a breezy rea...

from Phrim

Some Remarks is a collection of mostly nonfiction essays by popular SF writer Neal Stephenson. The essays all feature his trademark style of making the mundane appear absolutely ridiculous, and are definitely fun reading. However, many of the essays seem dated, as a large part of them are from th...

from dougb56586

A collection of essays, magazine interviews, the text (or transcripts) of a couple invited lectures, and the foreword to a book by David Foster Wallace. The two short fiction stories are humorous and quite good, dealing with themes of virtual reality and cryptocurrency respectively. An essay, or ...