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June 16, 2003

Neal Stephenson has a follow-up novel to Cryptonomicon coming out shortly.  He once again appears to be dipping heavily towards historical fiction.

Quicksilver: Volume One of The Baroque Cycle is due to be released September 23, 2003.  You can find a preview excerpt “here”:http://www.baroquecycle.com/preview.htm.

To tide you over in the meantime, here is a Neal Stephenson short story I hadn’t seen before; it was originally published in Forbes back in ‘97.

“Jipi and the paranoid chip”:http://pacificcoast.net/~evavanemden/books/neals/jipi.html

(via “StreetTech”:http://www.streettech.com)



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