SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Neal Stephenson Getting the Message: Storytelling in Video Games  Jul 7, 2009 But measured against books like Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan and Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer and Neal Stephenson's Anathem, or movies like The Handmaid's Tale and Dark City and Solaris, it came across more like sucking on a really pretty lollipop. Muzyka and Zeschuk can talk "meta" narrative all they like--social, external, internal, whatever--that's just the medium changing, not the message. (Yahoo News -- Technology) Literary Boston neighborhoods  Jul 5, 2009 Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller by Neal Stephenson (1988). When I got to the water between Spectacle Island and South Boston the sky was blue in the east and black in the west. (Boston Globe) Does the Mac-Windows-Linux Race Ever Change?  Jun 17, 2009 Scanning through some of the Unix entries on Wikipedia, I came across a fascinating essay written ten years ago by Neal Stephenson, the real award-winning science fiction author behind the pen name Stephen Bury. It s titled In the Beginning was the Command Line, but in addition to its core message it is a concise sociological assessment of the state of the Microsoft-Apple-Linux balance in that epoch. (Datamation) Back to Authors News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009