Neal Stephenson's 'Quicksilver'
Posted: Oct 1st 2003, 7:13 am
Fans of 'Snowcrash', 'The Diamond Age', and 'Cryptonomicon' will probably want to seek out 'Quicksilver', 1000 pages thick and the start of a new trilogy. Here's a couple of reviews:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088510/
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2003/09 ... index.html
Also by Stephenson, 'In the Beginning was the Command Line' is not fiction, it's a long article on computer operating systems, and the full text is available online here (I ordered the hardcopy version along with 'Quicksilver' from amazon.com):
http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/InTheBeg ... ommandLine
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088510/
http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2003/09 ... index.html
Also by Stephenson, 'In the Beginning was the Command Line' is not fiction, it's a long article on computer operating systems, and the full text is available online here (I ordered the hardcopy version along with 'Quicksilver' from amazon.com):
http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/InTheBeg ... ommandLine
