Some Remarks Essays and Other Writing

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. Playful and provocative, Some Remarks displays Stephenson's opinions and ideas on
The Internet, our dwindling national attention span, and the cultural importance of books and bookishness;Waco, religion, and the cluelessness of secular society;Metaphysics and the battle between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz;The laying of the longest wire on Earth - and why it matters to you;Technology, freedom, commerce, and the Chinese;How Star Wars and 300 mirror who we are today and what that spells for our future; andModern Jedi knights, a.k.a. scientists and technologists, and why they are admired and feared by both the left and the right.
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.