"The Big Bang Theory Gets a Big Boost"
- Voronwë the Faithful
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[OT]I think three successful and well-reviewed books puts you well beyond the "relatively rookie writer" category. Just sayin'. [/OT]
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
Neal Stephenson took a crack at it with Anathem. Fun story, though I had a tough time at first.Passdagas the Brown wrote:I'm a little surpised that there's not more science fiction surrounding the concept of a multiverse. Very rich story-telling possibilities there.
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I always have to sidle up on Neal Stephenson, and consciously give him 100 pages to bring me into the story. I've never been sorry I did it, though.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Somehow, he makes it entertaining. Anathem was a bit rough on me, though. It probably didn't help that I bought it as a present for myself after defending. Trying to get into a book about parallel universes that is actually set in a parallel universe when you're running at less than 50% just doesn't work. I had to put it aside for a few weeks until I'd mentally recovered a bit.
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I've got Cryptonomicon lurking on my Kindle.
To match the cinder-block edition on my To Be Read bookshelf (now double-shelved).
Sometimes at night I think I hear them whispering. . . .
To match the cinder-block edition on my To Be Read bookshelf (now double-shelved).
Sometimes at night I think I hear them whispering. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King