Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Kari
>
> Stephenson, if others haven't told you yet, became very hot with Snow Crash
> (1992), but I prefer The Diamond Age (1995) & then the sort of SF, sort of
> WW2 invented history Cryptonomicon (1999), the frist of a proposed trilogy
> (& sill 918 pages long, & a great read). Born (1959) in Fort Meade
> Maryland, grew up in Champaigne-Urbana, Illinois & Ames, Iowa, now lives in
> the Pacific Northwest (though he spent some time in Boston). Any chance you
> knew him in anh of those places? Snow Crash was a late entry in the
> cyberpunk sweepstakes . . .
Thank you for the information, Doug. In fact, in the meantime I looked uphis
web page, on which he refers to my friend by saying "There is a
Neal Stephenson living in Canada. He is not me. Do not pester him." etc.
That aside, what I gleaned on the Web and what you have just told me
make me want to read some of his books. It seems they are very popular --
I think I must have slept through the 90s not to have heard of this chap.
K
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>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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>
> I'm going to swim for my life
> to another shore. The human shore's
> too much
>
> You can speak. You're on safe
> ground, you mandala, you. I'm
> getting out of here
> Charles Olson
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