Some Remarks

Name: Some Remarks
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Neal Stephenson
ISBN: 9780062190536

Author: Neal Stephenson

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/07/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the same time (Cryptonomicon). Now he treats his legion of fans to Some Remarks, an enthralling collection of essays—Stephenson’s first nonfiction work since his long essay on technology, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, more than a decade ago—as well as new and previously published short writings both fiction and non. Some Remarks is a magnificent showcase of a brilliantly inventive mind and talent, as he discourses on everything from Sir Isaac Newton to Star Wars.

About Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 28, 2020

There's no other way to put this: It's a grab-bag. You have no choice what has been put in it and sometimes it's a few truly awesome short stories and sometimes it's an interview or two and sometimes it's light, almost spur of the moment ramblings and sometimes it's an in-depth essay (through Wired)......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 23, 2012

Leave it to Neal Stephenson to publish a collection of essays that cover everything from office furniture to the metaphysical theories of Gottfried Leibniz. (I found the office furniture one more enjoyable.) The thing about Stephenson is that once he gets interested in a subject, he is going to write......more

Goodreads review by David on October 19, 2020

This is a fun book of essays by one of my favorite authors. The essays cover the gamut of topics; some short, some very long. One of the essays is about trans-oceanic cables, the people and companies involved laying the cables. Very interesting; I was particularly struck by the cables' arch-enemy--f......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 02, 2024

This was a collection of essays by the novelest Neal Stephenson. There are a few that are worthwhile, but not enough to make this more than a 3* book for me. I would like him to develop his crazy Shire idea though..........more

Goodreads review by Clouds on December 16, 2015

This is a really long article - I read it in 4 sittings on my lunch breaks - available online in the Wired archives. It's dated - it's about laying submarine cables in the mid-nineties - but it's fascinating in the same vein as Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle (if you're a fan of Stephenson's novel......more