Stephenson's Quicksilver Slated For March 7th 114
Swampper writes: "New Neal Stephenson novel Quicksilver is available for pre-order from Amazon UK. It's due out on March 7th. There is also another Stephenson book on the horizon; Interface. It will arrive May 2nd." Actually, Interface was previously offered through the psuedonym "Stephen Bury" Note the discussion of this book and others on the Cryptonomicon site.
Interface (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Interface (Score:1)
I found that my local dealer (the not so small type, but three shops in three different larger cities around here) offers the same books at about 25-50c(EUR) less for the same service (or you can choose to pick it up in town).
If you go to the site of Libri.de, you can even choose almost any book shop where you want to pick up your delivery.
And afterall, we surely know where to buy books online.
Cool! Best biking movie of all time! (Score:2, Funny)
Recommendations (Score:2, Informative)
Cryptonomicon is great for any "security"-minded or interested person. It's a great read. Snow Crash I liked, but it was a bit confusing in the beginning. Once again, recommended for the typical slashdot reader.
I expect Quicksilver to be equally interesting
Re:Linux (Score:2)
I have him beat by a year or two. But his novel has the advantage of having been published, while mine is collecting dust on a shelf. :-(
Re:Linux (Score:1)
In fairness... (Score:2)
The big Sell Outs:
Amazon.com (book) [amazon.com] (tape) [amazon.com]
Amazon.co.uk(book) [amazon.co.uk]
I'm a bit miffed that something as interesting to many /. readers isn't news but Stephenson is. Ok, it's subjective, the choices, but they did run articles earlier about the works possibly being recovered from his Adams' computer and eventually seeing print. Seemed natural to run the article, but I wonder if /. has an exclusive contract with fatbrain and won't run articles without links to them, so once fatbrain confirms they'll have the books then /. will run the story? That would certainly be a sell out.
That there is actually cover art and a look at Harmony Books [harmonybooks.com] bears this up, it's coming out, one year after his death.
Amazon UK has had this for a year now... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Amazon UK has had this for a year now... (Score:2, Informative)
What about The Cobweb (2nd Bury book)? (Score:4, Insightful)
Is that flagged to be re-issued as well? Given that copies of Zodiac have popped up again here recently, I'd imagine The Cobweb would be stocked more widely with the Stephenson name on the cover.
I'm looking forward to Quicksilver, of course -- all that detail combined with amusing narrative
In The Beginning Was The Command Line (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:In The Beginning Was The Command Line (Score:1)
You're right, this is a great read.
I downloaded this (http://www.memoware.com/b/commandline.pdb) [memoware.com] and read it from my PDA. It provided a couple/few hours of reading enjoyment during the slow times onboard my submarine....I'll bet Mr. Stephenson could've never foreseen his work being read in a weirder place than under the sea!
Anyways, I wonder if he will add an epilogue that covers the changes brought about by MacOSX.
Interface saved my mother's life. (Score:3, Interesting)
I got to thank Mr Stephenson in person a couple of years ago at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2000 conference held in Toronto. I sort of made a fool of myself since I only briefly said thank you and explained why...then ran off since a few tears started, and having some claim to being a little bit macho, didn't want him to see me cry.
So thanx again Neal and George!
ttyl
Farrell
p.s. The two of them also wrote another novel called The Cobweb, which seems a little prescient considering Sept. 11!
Wirth saved my father's life!! (Score:1)
(actually, many CS professors in europe.) teachings.
During the Vietnam war, he returned from europe
to the US, and he was required to join the armed
forces and fight.
The man was an emaciated grad student, and failed
every physical exam they threw at him. During the
2nd day of try-outs, he developed asthma and a long
list of other illnesses and complexes.
USMC knew they will support this man to the grave
if they ever enlist him, so they decided to save
the public money from an evidant premature medicare.
As soon as they certified him "unfit", he returned
healthy and kicking -- back to terminal radiation,
and eliminating left recursion.
Stephenson talks about Quicksilver (Score:4, Interesting)
List of Books (Score:3, Informative)
* The Big U (1984)
* Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988)
* Snow Crash (1992)
* The Diamond Age (1995)
* Cryptonomicon (1999)
* Quicksilver (2002)
He has also written two books under the psuedonym of Stephen Bury:
* Interface (1994)
* The Cobweb (1996)
What a waste (Score:1, Insightful)
[flame suit on] Instead, all we get are comic books. William Gibson is just goth mood music in print with a little tech thrown in for effect. In person, he admitted as much, but said that was fine with him. It was all about the style, nothing deeper.
Stephenson starts to get imaginative regarding tech, then throws it all away with goofy comic book plots. Lots of ideas I thought were clever enough to build intelligent novels around -- but no such luck.
(All I've read of his have been Snow Crash and Diamond Age, but that left me uninterested in trying again. Maybe Cryptonomicon is different....)
And don't get me started on Speilberg and AI!
The implications of what we can reasonably assume we'll be able to do within a few decades are mind blowing. Surely there must be someone who can bring it to life, to put us there and make it feel real, without wimping out and turning it into just a big joke.
I don't think I have the talent to do it myself, but I can't believe that nobody else does either.
Instead, we have a wasteland of black leather and sunglasses, of elves and trolls, of light sabers and aliens that all look like humans with lumpy heads....
Where is the "2001" for our age?
Re:What a waste (Score:1, Funny)
Check back in a year.
Re:What a waste (Score:1)
Try Greg Bear's "Slant", "Queen of Angels", and "Moving Mars".
Re:What a waste (Score:2)
I enjoyed all those, but they didn't feel all that serious to me. Moving Mars, especially, flew off into comic-book level speculation at the end...
Bear's a good writer but he has an unfortunate tendency to the epic (IMHO).
Re:What a waste (Score:4, Interesting)
All the truly valuable science fiction-- which I've heard referred to as the most interesting genre being used today, although I'm not sure I'd go that far-- deals with man's relationship with society and technology (which grew, on a side note, out of the western, which dealt with taming the frontier, or the big scary world; the next natural step was to ask where we go from there).
But you're right, there's nothing out there (with which I'm familiar) right now that's utterly breathtaking. A few reasons for this, in my mind:
1. Sci-fi has been disregarded in pop culture, despite the "rise of the geek," as fetishistic and childish. Because it's not respected, respectable people don't stick up for it.
2. The sci-fi we get is utterly commercial-- Star Trek, movies passing themselves off as sci-fi, etc.-- and so the money behind it doesn't want to tackle weightier issues.
But some things to ponder:
1. Stephenson's doing a pretty fine job. He's examining important ideas in a still-relevant medium, the novel, and he does so in a way that gets him at least a modicum of notice out in the real world. He'll be remembered down the line as one of the people that really gets it.
2. Sci-fi was pretty silly to start with, you know. The B-movies of the fifties-- giant bugs and such-- had the subtext of fears of communism and the dangers of atomic power, but they were still movies with GIANT BUGS AND SUCH. There are gems that we do get these days-- Stephenson, Spielberg's "A.I." (and sorry, folks, like it or not, it wasn't a BAD movie by any means, no matter how misdirected the ending)-- that are just as good, if not better, than anything from the bygone eras.
3. You can't expect a new "2001" every few years because there is nobody out there now operating at the level of Kubrick in 1968. He was, at his peak, probably the finest filmmaker in the world, and "2001" was his opportunity to indulge in his grandest delusions. If he wasn't such a genius, it would have been an atrocious movie. As it stands, it's the byproduct of one of the medium's greatest creators, and something like that's not going to come along every day.
There's talent out there capable of doing wonderful things. You've just got to sift through the rest.
Re:What a waste (Score:4, Interesting)
In that case I'd recommend Greg Egan.
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gregegan/
As can be seen from his web site, he's a geek too
Pretty much any of his books rock, but I especially like Diaspora and Axiomatic. He puts
a lot of his short stories online so you can even try before you buy.
Of course, as with anything like this, it's up to personal taste, so YMMV.
- Muggins the Mad
Re:Greg Egan rocks... (Score:2)
Re:What a waste (Score:2)
He's more than a Geek, he's a published physicist
and as you can see from the web site with stories
like the plank dive, is not a afraid to put really
heavy physics in to his hard sci-fi stories.
Re:What a waste (Score:2)
For what it's worth, I've read all three of the above books, and Cryptonomicon is by far the best of the three. I agree that Snow Crash and Diamond Age were both comic-book-like, but I didn't think Cryptonomicon was at all. Give Cryptonomic a chance, you will be pleasantly surprised.
Re:What a waste (Score:2)
Re:What a waste (Score:1)
I think you're being too hard on "A.I." though. The film lacked a clean ending (the "failed quest"... succeeded because man can create God in his own memory????) but it was probably the most thought provoking film of 2001. From the very opening shot (of cascading waves) we're ushered into a realm of complex visual symbolism. Everyone picked-up on the Pinnochio aspects because the heavy-handed script hammered them home, but the film was more a treatise on reality, and used fairy tales as a general vehicle for commenting on stories as giving life meaning....
Anyone else catch the Sleeping Beauty references? Hint: listen for the Tchaikovsky....
Re:What a waste (Score:2)
Quicksilver is going to be about the author of a Renaissance treatise about cryptography -- a sort of fictionalized version of Johann Trithemius.
Re:What a waste (Score:1)
People can't handle the truth. (Score:2)
Stephenson does large amounts of research for his books and they are based largely in fact with a little artistic license to make the stories interesting. Snow Crash foretold the Net and the rise of Multi-player VR enviroments, P2P file sharing, etc. The Diamond Age is a good look at how nanotechnology will effect our society. Of course it keeps within bounds of the near future because nanotech will change us to such a degree that the average person can't even comprehend it. My only complaint is the silly idea that we'll figure out to hack everything in the world but won't be able to generate speech that sounds like a real person.
You might read some of Bruce Sterlings books too. Books like Distraction are good peeks at the possible future. It deals somewhat with genetics and neural hacks but more importantly addresses how society might evolve once everyone can be self-sufficent but can't find work.
If you could take Distraction and The Diamond Age and merge them into a single book and jump 20 years in the future you'd have an excellent story that would sell to nobody but geeks because only geeks could understand it.
Re:What a waste (Score:1)
chris
Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:3, Interesting)
One of my first questions after finishing Cryptonomicon was whether Enoch Root was indeed human or wasn't some sort of angelic presence sent to meddle in human affairs. Since Cryptonomicon depicts Enoch as seeming to not age very fast, and this book is set almost 300 years ago, it will be interesting to see whether Enoch is still alive and the same age at that time.
For more about the Enoch Root, click here [everything2.com] to read a little essay written by my colleague, e2 Glowing Fish.
Re:Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:1)
Re:Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:2)
And if Enoch Root was 20something in WW2 it's not
unreasonable that he should be knocking around in
the 90s.
Re:Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:2)
Re:Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:2)
Well, it is not unreasonable. Enoch does seem to be pretty active for a man in his mid-seventies. Of course, it is nothing that requires a supernatural explanation, but it does perhaps suggest one.
In any case, we will find out.
Re:Will we find out about Enoch Root? (Score:2)
I'm reminded of one of Enoch Root's lines in Cryptonomicon, about a quarter of the way through the book, when asked if he could speak Italian.
"But my Italian is heavily informed by the Latin that my father insisted that I learn. So I would probably sound rather old-fashioned to the locals. In fact, I would probably sound like a seventeenth-century alchemist or something."
The seventeenth century sounds about right for Quicksilver. Interesting, huh?
The Publisher (Score:1)
Re:The Publisher (Score:1)
Re:Lets see if I get censored if im logged in (Score:2)
He is an absolutely terrible writer
Troll? Or just a terrible abuser of the apostrophe?
Re:Lets see if I get censored if im logged in (Score:1)
Is Neal a bad writer?
well there is evidence to point that is not a bad writer, take fer instance the first chapter of Snow Crash, when he writes about the pizza deliverator. That more than anything else made his reputation and deservedly so,
Now, I will the first to admit that what Neal dosent have, and this may be explained by his almost graphic need to write a academic tome, is the ability to pace. He doesnt really have the ability to explain big things clearly, but then again this is hard to do. I gave as an examply the last chaptors of The diamond Age, clearly what he watned to indicate was large, spontaneously reacting, events but it ends up being read as a bit of mash, it took me several times to read it, because I get the feeling that while Neal knows whats going on, he himslef doesnt quite have a good handle on it.
Another way to think of this is to say, that you can tell if you dont have a good handle on a subject when you see how you explain it to someone else. If you explanation of the idea is muddled, then your grasp on the idea is as well muddled.
Perhaps, what we see is that when neal really has a good grip on a thing (the pizza scence) he writes SF as well, and with as much imagery, as anyone else, but
when he doesnt have a good grasp, he will still plow ahead (and good for him!) into more difficult subjects, but its clear he is still struggling.
anyway thanks
Re:Lets see if I get censored if im logged in (Score:2)
However, this is improving -- Cryptonomicon showed evidence of writing *towards* a definite ending, which is more than you can say of most of his work. (Interface was quite tight in that sense as well -- maybe that was his uncle's influence?
Neal's a great writer, and I don't want to begrudge him not being perfect because what he has given us has been so good. There aren't many writers who can give that much detail without it sounding like a travelogue/instruction manual/training video -- he communicates massive amounts of information in a readable and very entertaining fashion. I thought Cryptonomicon was the best thing he'd done so far, so I have high hopes for his future works...
Stephenson Online (Score:2, Informative)
New Stephenson (Score:1)
I think I have an idea for his next novels though. It?s a story that involves joy and despair, victory and defeat, and an intense struggle between a man and the technology that enfolds the world....and that was just me trying to connect to a damned server to download some files. My attempt at upgrading my glibc files and the subsequent realisation that they were perhaps somewhat important to the system as it crashed, are ample fodder for at least another book or two.
Re:New Stephenson (Score:2)
Writing style. . . (Score:2, Interesting)
'Daimond Age' was required reading in a politcal science class here at the U, and I borrowed it from a friend who said it was good but confusing. I quickly arrived at the same conclusion. I loved the nanotech and the detail lavished on describing this technology. He had some great ideas on how it would work in our society--I especially liked the 'reactives' and the 'toner wars'. Oh, and I can't forget the ten terabyte nano hardrive. Can you imagine? 'Oops, I just dusted the entire library of congress off my left shoulder.'
Meanwhile, while much of the book was brilliantly creative, I have to say that I hated the splintered plot that only made sense in the last few pages. There were many aspects of the story that I'm still unsure about. For instance, 'Cryptnet' sounded like a great plot idea that simply died off unexploited. Likewise for the 'drummers'.
At any rate, if you haven't read any Neal Stephenson, please do! Especially if you like visionary works of dark futures, or are especially fascinated by nanomachine technology. I hope is later books will be a bit more cohesive, but I'm sure they'll still be good reads.
Re:Writing style. . . (Score:1)
Hint: The Cryptnet people seem to mysteriously disappear after they reach a certain high level. The drummers appear out of nowhere and enable John to decrypt stuff that is theoretically undecryptable, using methods that go beyond (or perhaps below) cryptography into the realm of the collective consciousness. Read it again and see.
I love the way Snow Crash makes you put together all the pieces yourself, too. He's a master at sketching the really visionary ideas, without actually hitting you over the head with them. If the first read didn't do it, try again, it may be worth it!
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Thoughts On N.Stephenson's Real Concerns (Score:4, Insightful)
I'll stick with Neal S. for now, but having read his most all his book, you can detect even way back in Snow Crash that Neal believes that what technology is really doing is making it clear that what really makes people different is not race (remember, the Protangonist, "Hiro" is a black/asian) not race, or genetics, but the culture that they acquire (the software that is written into the bio-Hardware, if you will).
In a A lady's Illus. primer I was surprised that this book really was a modern versioin of many philosophical tracts that were popular in the 18/19th centuries. IN A.L's.I.P, N.S. is really concerned with what is key about education, what is key about a culture that makes it successful. While his grip on his understanding culture seems to be (from reading) kind of unsophisticated, I have to give them man extreme props for even trying to tackle what seems to be the most contentious issue of our times. He directly attacks "cultureal relativity", "the dumbing down of society", "The real reason for poverty", and in both A.L's.I.P and in "..The Command line" Essay, he tries to describe what is about cultures and even sub-groups of the cultures (Hacker, vs, End_user, for example).
What I am trying to say that Neal is using tech as a way to strip away the mere happenstance that makes people a certain way and is trying to understand fundamentally what is going on with culture and where it is heading.
I look forward to his new book, and will not be surprised if I see these same themes play out, once again.
I would appreciate hearing you comments on what you guys think Neal's real themes are ( and no they arent about what new tech thing is coming up, btw
Thanks for reading
Re:Thoughts On N.Stephenson's Real Concerns (Score:1)
Josh
Re:Thoughts On N.Stephenson's Real Concerns (Score:1)
Just rereading interface this week... (Score:2)
It is an enjoyable book. It is not one that you read for the plot, however. it is one that you read for Stephenson's screeds on opinion polsters, politics and the like. It does have some interesting things to say, as well as some very interesting and satisfying momments. The end it telegraphed way in advance, but the writing is enjoyable enough that you don't really care.
It is one I recommend.
I have not read "The Cobweb". The description did not interest me that much. Maybe I do need to go back and read it.
Re:Just rereading interface this week... (Score:1)
yes, you should (Score:1)
Re:Just rereading interface this week... (Score:1)
I read it last year sometime around August, which was a bit too weird considering what happened in September (Cobweb's subject matter has some parallels).
It's really quite simple (Score:1)
The Cobweb (Score:1)
If it helps your search, I have a US edition Bantam Spectra published in September 1997; ISBN: 0553575457
BTW, if you're doing a search for other works by Stephen Bury, don't get thrown off by the Head of of Modern English Collections, Stephen Bury, who has a book coming out this month.
Cobweb not early (Score:1)
Fountain Pen (Score:1)
IIRC, Mr. Stephenson was writing (by now it'ld be 'wrote') this novel with a fountain pen, to keep himself from being long-winded. At the time I read that comment, however, he said it wasn't working.
As a sidenote, this is perfect timeing: I read Cryptonomicon two years ago & loved it, & I read Zodiac I liked that, but I just started reading Snow Crash last week -- I've barely put it down since. It is a little comic-book -ish, but to me that only helps it. (I.e. I found the one Gibson novel that I read too serious.)
Stephenson and Pynchon (Score:1)
My copy of Cryptonomicon has a blurb that briefly compares it to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow , though in truth I think that the flow of the story line makes it a little bit more like V , since both follow several different dramas unfolding at different times in history, all related to the same mystery--one story-line being placed during the war, the other in modern times (which at the time, was the early 60's).
In anticipation of Quicksilver , however, I've finally gotten around to reading Pynchon's Mason & Dixon . Why? Because it, too, is a potboiler of an historical novel "set about 300 years ago" Mason & Dixon's focus, like Gravity's Rainbow is science, instrumentation, and man's relationship with his tools and mechanical creations--similar themes to Quicksilver and Cryptonomicon, except rather than the focus being on mechanical creations, the focus is on digital creations.
The number and variety of historical, scientific, engineering and philosophical references is one aspect that make Pynchon's V , Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon so fascinating--as well as Stephenson's Snow Crash , The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon , and from it's description alone, I would surmise Quicksilver . The characters in these books are intimately involved with the pursuit of understanding some scientific or technological challenge, and their discoveries of different parts of the puzzle challenge their personal philosophies and relationships, as well as having some pivotal but largely underrecognized impact on the historical events unfolding around them.
What I love about these books is that they're not about "A Great Man Of Science" or "The Mad Scientist That Saves The Day". All of them place scientists and engineers where we normally sit -- in our own little world of fascinating details and connections -- and rather than the scientific process being depicted as "The Big Breakthrough"--it's rather depicted more like it really is: a lot of false leads, mistakes, insights, going over the same ground again, tangled up with personal crises both major and minor which are related to which ideas and lines of reasoning are pursued -- and tangled up with each character's family history. Eventually a few of the pieces of the puzzle start to fit together, which tend to make the pieces that don't fit look curiouser and curiouser.
Pynchon originally studied mechanical engineering, "dropped out" into liberal arts and went on to write technical documentation (aAARGH!) for Boeing prior to publishing his first novel. Likewise, Stephenson did quite a lot of programming before, and during, his literary pursuits. Their backgrounds play no small part in their characterizations of the concerns and daily lives of scientists, engineers and programmers -- in academic and military research contexts as well as in amateur pursuits. Far more realistic than the breathlessly admiring "Great Man Of Science" characterizations of Scientists by science journalists and popularizers.
If you like Stephenson, you might want to give Pynchon a whirl, particularly V , Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon .
Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" = superb SF! A revi (Score:2)
He turns it into a stunningly brilliant, witty, profound "buddy" story. It's written in an amazing pseudo-18th century English, a mix of high class diction and lower class slang, that is actually quite readable and entertaining. The two guys (one a surveyor, one an astronomer) are first teamed up by the Royal Society in London, to go to South Africa and observe a transit of Venus (this really did happen). Eventually they get the commission to survey the famous Line in America.
Along the way there is much detail about astronomical history -- the discovery of Uranus, the struggle to figure out how to use the stars to determine latitude from on board a ship, and how astronomy and land surveying complement each other -- and also stuff about the intense rivalries among the most prominent (real) 18th century British scientists. There is also a lot of humor, some of it based on wordplay and anachronisms, some of it based on a kind of "magic realist" approach (there is a funny Talking Dog character, and an old astronomer/alchemist who shows his students how to levitate and fly around the country along "ley lines").
Oh, don't let me forget the Chinese feng shui master who somehow ends up in North America, accompanying the surveying expedition (and introducing them to the Asian sauce called k'tsiap, which evolves into a condiment we all know well today), and the crazed French chef, pursued by a vengeful robotic duck built in Paris years before. It sounds nuts, but it all works beautifully. And in places the book is profoundly moving, as Mason and Dixon's friendship deepens, and they deal with their own tragedies -- the early death of Mason's beloved wife, Dixon's separation from his father.
I think a comparison to Neal Stephenson is valid and interesting. Stephenson's broad imagination, and tendency to mix serious, satirical and highly technical/speculative ideas into one big collage make him similar to Pynchon. Personally, I think Pynchon is more talented -- after all, he's been writing brilliant novels since the 1960s. But I enjoy both writers, and I imagine many on
Oh, I should briefly mention Pynchon's most famous work: Gravity's Rainbow. It's a staggering, challenging, amazingly huge novel published in the 70s, about the German V2 project during WW2 (and, since it's Pynchon, about many other things too).
Re:Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" = superb SF! A re (Score:1)
You mean you like the Talking Dog more than the mechanical love-struck duck? What about the magnetic bathtub?
The the bit about the founding fathers smoking hemp is a rip^h^h^hreference to an old Firesign Theatre routine, but just as funny.
Dava Sobel's Longitude you'll recognize the chronometer and the rivalry between the astronomers and the watch-makers to take the longitude prize. There's numerous references to it in Mason & Dixon, including their own precarious political situation in the context of that struggle. It was a very real academic political struggle of the day (another theme Stephenson treats light-heartedly but rather heavy-handedly in The Big U). The true story of Longitude is replete with power-plays by the powerful (and, as we find out in Mason & Dixon well-connected and married to money) academic astronomer Maskelyne (masculine?), the struggling "lone genius" engineer/inventor/watch-maker and one very big government grant in the balance. There is nothing new under the sun, is there?
The interesting comparison for me: is Cryptonomicon to Gravity's Rainbow as Quicksilver will be to Mason & Dixon -- we can find out as soon as we can get our hands on a Quicksilver .
Interesting... (Score:1)
Very interesting to find out that was Stephenson after all! I loved Cryptonomicon, loved Snow Crash even more (what a mind job!), thought Diamond Age was weird, and so on. Cryptonomicon is divided up into two time periods (WWII and the present-ish), and the best compliment I can give it is that, while I was reading each section, I didn't want it to end and go back to the other one.
It'll be interesting to see how he follows that one up.
Amazon link is removed (Score:1)
Re:Cryptonomicom (Score:1)
Personally I think you're confusing your opinion as fact. Clearly there are different viewpoints here.
Lawrence.
Re:not true (Score:2, Flamebait)
You really think Neal Stephenson posts to Slashdot? He's a professional author: use your brain, for christs sake.
Or, better yet, have a look at his web site [well.com], where he explains why he doesn't answer email:
"All of my time and attention are spoken for--several times over. Please do not ask for them."
And I seriously doubt he means he's too busy posting to slashdot.
Re:not true (Score:1)
It's just very unlikely, of course.
Re:not true (Score:1)