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    Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?

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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Interface was really a low point in the man's writing. Yech... The only one worse is "The Big U". Shame on Stephenson for dragging that one out after he became famous.
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    07/14/09

    @Starlionblue: To be fair, he pretty much disowned The Big U for years. I thought it was a hoot and wish I still had my 1st edition. (Stupid Friends)
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    07/15/09

    @Grey_Area: For what I read, he didn't disowned it for years... he still has, but had it republished because people were paying hundreds of dollars for it on e-bay, and he preferred people paying a fair price for a novel that sucks (in his opinion) than people paying obscene prices for the same novel.



    Makes me wonder what happened to your first edition :D
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    07/15/09

    @Dirk Angry: I lent it to a friend who promptly "lost" it. Arrrgh!
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    You would be hard pressed to call Cryptomonicon & the Baroque Cycle "Science Fiction". He switched "genres" a long time ago.
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    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: How about "historically sciency fictiony"
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    07/14/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: I hope you're making air quotes with your fingers when you enter quotation marks on your computer or else it doesn't count.
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    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: I can make air quotes with my fingers while I type with my spatulate thumbs.
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    07/14/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: I agree. CRYPTONOMICON was one of the best books I've ever read. But I was hard pressed to find any SF elements in it. Sure, it stimulated my fannish receptors. But that may have been the Perl source code.
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    07/15/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: Historical fictional thriller? Don't get me wrong, I LOVED that book, but it wasn't REALLY scifi. Everything was completely plausible using pretty much any engineering talent.
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    07/15/09

    @Chip Overclock: Yeah, even the end where they smelted the gold out using diesel fuel was totally plausible.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Whatever it is, I'll read it. Man is genius.
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    07/14/09

    @Iamthe5thcylon: Yeah, what the Cylon said!
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Neal Stephenson Gets Half A Million Dollars, But Did He Have To Switch Genres To Get It?
    Eeehm... well, wasn't there an io9 article a while back mentioning how Anathem was marketed not as sci-fi, but as a thriller/fiction novel?
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    07/14/09

    @crashedpc /sarcasm: Yes, Stephenson hasn't been sold as SF since The Diamond Age. You'll find the entire Baroque Cycle in the mainstream novels category of your local Borders.
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    07/14/09

    @Sproing: I found Snowcrash buried between copies of romance and Grisham novels at the local library back in high school.
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    07/14/09

    @Sproing: Not at my local Borders. I know, because I was the one who had to shelve them--SF/Fantasy all the way.
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    07/15/09

    @braak: You mean the tiny Sci-section next to the massive alternative medicine back shelves?
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