![]() He threw out ideas like confetti, breaking as much new ground as William Gibson. In the wide-open years of the ’90s, when science-fiction writers still thought of the future as something that was yet to come, Stephenson was one of the more astute stars of speculative fiction. Of course, in his case, coasting means knocking out a thousand-plus-page hyperbolic steam engine of a globetrotting thriller with apparently as much ease as Stephen King might have penning a novella before breakfast. But with his new novel, the hyper-knowledgeable and impeccably entertaining author might well be thought of as coasting. Nobody ever accused Neal Stephenson of not going far enough. ![]()
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