neal stephenson

I've just started reading this. It's excellent! I'll give a review when I'm finished but the book cover notes seem to cover it: "A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of 'Pygmalion'" Guardian. "A rattling good yarn... it's social and scientific extrapolations from our own world...

Im currently reading a book by Neal Stephenson called "Quicksilver" and when I saw this interview while surfing I thought I'd check it out. He's got some interesting points on writing, the genre and science itself. http://www.sophists.org/article269.html