John Williams wrote:
> David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>> Sorry no. Not any of the books Google finds with
>> that title, nor the Stephenson novel with a similar title.
>> I've read Cryptonomicon, which was O.K., if a bit long
>> for the content.
>
> I skipped Crypto, I imagine I would have had the same
> impression as you.
>
> Anathem (I mistyped an -a before) is about 900 pages, but
> after the first 80 pages or so the action picks up and it
> did not drag at all for me. I'd say it is somewhere in
> between Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle books as far as
> balance between action and exposition.
Sounds good. The Baroque Cycle was scary in its
length, and I was not too impressed with his habit
of having ancestors or descendants of characters
also being characters. (I read an excerpt.)
>> How about Saturn's Children?
>
> I have not read it. I had the impression it was pulp SF,
> but that was just from reading a couple blurbs about it.
> Do you recommend it?
Probably from the cover? : ) Charles Stross had
a piece on his blog about how authors have pretty
much no control over how their books are marketed
by most publishers. Yes, I recommend it. Stross
may not have the most polished writing, but the
rest of his books are amazing.
My favorites of his are the ones that start with
The Atrocity Archives. Not everyone would come
up with Lovecraftian computer science.
---David
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