On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, if you haven't read _Cryptonomicon_ yet, you should. I've also > heard good things about _Anathem_. I have a copy, but it hasn't worked > its way up the stack yet. > I've read Zodiac, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and a quarter of Quicksilver before getting lost in the winding passages. The book's lost in my backlog now. I liked the chrono-spatial interleaving that Stephenson introduced in Quicksilver, but Diamond Age is my favourite for the sheer breadth of the imagined technology. Most notably, of a future without jet fuel but with immersive media.
