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Old 10-26-2008, 10:08 PM   #13
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Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite SF authors. Strike that: favorite authors. I thought Snow Crash and Diamond Age were mind-blowing, amazing stand-alone novels. Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle stand up with some of the best SF, Fanatasy, and Action Thrillers ever written. So I responded with unmitigated, undignified glee when I found that his newest novel, Anathem, out in hardcover, was also out as an e-book at half the cover price.
I'm still struggling through Cryptonomicon. So far it's just scenes and vignettes; I haven't found a story line yet. But since so many have said it was a great book, I'm hanging in there.
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