in which Neal Stephenson rambles tangentially about the laying of the longest wire on earth
wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.htmlPosted May 20, 2009, 11:32 PM UTC
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So the next book in the Cryptonomicon/Baroque Cycle universe will take place at least partially in "the Year of Our Lord 1858" and feature the eminent gentlemen mentioned. This article is probably an afterthought of collected ramblings Neal put together with the results of some research for his next Shaftoe story. Loved it.
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well yes, that is a good part of its appeal.
same here :) the rambling was what made cryptonomicon
Yeah, I remember reading Cryptonomicon and thinking "Holy crap, this is what that article he wrote in Wired was about." But I still skipped the article, because fuck thats long.
Also, I'm half way though The Confusion in the Baroque Cycle for the second time. It's way better the second time through.
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You can buy them either way -- as 8 trade paperbacks or in 3 volumes as it was originally published. I had never thought of it but absolutely agree that books 4 & 5 would suffer by not being intertwined.
I love the note about the beginning about how the books are 'con-fused'.