/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6401663]

http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-excerpt/

What books are you excited for?

[Anonymous No.6401681]

>>6401663
That one, and also the Familiar by Mark Danielewski, because I'm a huge pleb.

I like Stephenson enough that I'm considering driving to Chicago in a few months to get him to sign something on his tour.

[Anonymous No.6401800]

>>6401663
Stephenson is fun. And this looks like a return to his shifting perspective crazyness of Anathem.

[Anonymous No.6401813]

There's a new Stephenson coming out? Oh YES YES YESSSSSSS.

[Anonymous No.6402682]

Pretty hooked, can't wait. Is deGrasse getting paid for this or what?

Reamde was good fun, but not his best. Hyped for some more 15 page descriptions of red herrings.

[Anonymous No.6402873]

It reads a bit like The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters doesn't it?

Super hyped for it in any case, I love the set-up.

[Anonymous No.6403198]

Have you guys read

[Anonymous No.6403250]

You should

[Anonymous No.6403298]

>>6401681

Also The Familiar, it comes out next month doesn't it?

Maybe the To Kill a Mockinbird sequel, Winds of Winter if it ever gets released.

[Anonymous No.6403378]

>>6403298
>it comes out next month doesn't it?
I believe so, yeah.

>>6403198
I thought Zodiac was pretty great, although it suffers from Sudden Neal Stephenson Ending Syndrome like a lot of his stuff does.

[Anonymous No.6403400]

So dr. Harris is literally Reddit Black Science Man...

[Anonymous No.6403504]

>>6403298
>Maybe the To Kill a Mockinbird sequel, Winds of Winter if it ever gets released

[Anonymous No.6404340]

bampu

[Anonymous No.6405466]

The Passenger

[Anonymous No.6406453]

bump

[Anonymous No.6406473]

>>6403378

is there anything of his that DOESNT suffer from Stephenson ending syndrome? I've basically resigned myself to it as just a feature at this point.

[Anonymous No.6406495]

I'm just sitting here waiting for the next Pynchon doorstopper.

[Anonymous No.6406555]

>>6406473
Even the Tom Clancy style thriller novels he wrote under a pseudonym do.

[Anonymous No.6406644]

>>6403378
I'm new to his books. Explain SNSES?

[Anonymous No.6407342]

I'm already both pleased and dubious. Pleased, because it seems like a totally madcap bit of premise has set all kinds of ticking clocks in motion which will be handled with usual technical aplomb. Dubious, because we already have what seem to be three examples of the only character to live in his books, with the possible exception of The Diamond Age. You know the one. Apparently attractive but preoccupied with a lack of preoccupation with such things, smugly apolitical because of the self evident rectitude of their opinions as bolt turners, exhausted by plebians, apparently baffled by romance as an emotional phenomenon but nevertheless finding themselves tolerably appointed in that regard, a fondness for the perceived-to-be-mostly-beneficial rompings of the mega-rich and their constellations, and so on.

[Anonymous No.6407725]

>>6407342
After reading your post, all I could think about was giving you a swirlie in a public toilet.

[Anonymous No.6407871]

>>6406644
Most of his books end very suddenly, without much resolution.

Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem suffer the worst from this.

The Diamond Age and Zodiac have it but the endings don't feel too out of place.

The Baroque cycle is really the exception.

I havn't actually read reamde, or any of his other stuff so I don't know how they end.

[Anonymous No.6407936]

>>6406495
This

[Anonymous No.6408201]

>>6406644
SNSES is where the book ends with a crazy guy with a bow coming over the hill, then everyone shoots him.

well, that's how Zodiac and Cryptonomicon ended.

[Anonymous No.6408278]

I know the series will never be finished, but I'd at least like to read the climax.