Dragaera

the next vlad book?

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Wed Jul 17 23:26:49 PDT 2002

Brad writes:
>>As someone else has pointed out, you've got the order pretty hosed
>>up there.  The fact that _Diamond Age_ was a pseudo-sequel was one clue.  :)
>>(I have also heard that _The Big U_ has been re-released, haven't looked
>>for it yet).
>For what it is worth, Stephenson does not think that The Big U was 
>all that good.  

So I've heard.  He's wrong, though -- it's one of his best books.
And the decent into chaos there makes more sense in The Big U than it
does in much of his other work.

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