'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' Time One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels - works colossal in vision and mind-boggling in complexity. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the product of a keen and adventurous intellect. Not surprisingly, Stephenson is regularly asked to contribute articles, lectures, and essays to numerous outlets, from major newspapers and cutting edge magazines to college symposia. This remarkable collection brings together previously published short writings, both fiction and nonfiction as well as a new essay (and an extremely short story) created specifically for this volume.
Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not); the future of publishing and the origins of his novels. By turns amusing and profound, critical and celebratory, yet always entertaining, Some Remarks offers a fascinating look into the prismatic mind of this extraordinary writer.
Recopilación de trabajos anteriores de maese Stephenson (artículos de Wired, prólogos de libros, relatos cortos...), con un capítulo añadido (Arsebestos) que es fantástico y habla sobre lo malo que es el sedentarismo y los métodos que ha empleado el autor para combatirlo. Su opción final, un escritorio elevado y una cinta de andar que encaje en él, para trabajar en casa caminando a no más de 1-2 km/h, me ha maravillado. Digna de echarle un par de pensadas. Yo ya había leído algunos de los componentes del refrito (como el inmenso Mother Earth, Mother Board, sobre el tendido de cables transoceánicos de fibra óptica), pero siempre es un placer leer la estupenda prosa de este señor. Recomendable.
