Ooh, Good News

It seems that a new Neal Stephenson book will be published in September. Apparently, "It's set on another planet and has aliens and so on. It's really about Platonic mathematics, but he needed the aliens and space opera-ish elements to spice it up a little bit." Exciting! I've read objectively better books over the last five years, but I probably haven't enjoyed any books as much as Cryptonomicon and the time it took to plow through the entire 2,500 page Baroque cycle was well spent. I believe this may put me in common company with Instapundit, which is kind of disturbing, but what can I do. Stephenson's Snow Crash remains one of the more prescienct novels in recent memory, he basically described Second Life in 1991.