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Yes, Snow Crash is excellent.  In his guise of "hacker tourist"
Stephenson wrote an article in Wired which is one of my favorite pieces
of journalism (though it's techno-geeko-utopianism doesn't age so well.)
It is about laying the earth's longest cable:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

Eric Siegel
Director of Planning
   & Program Development
Connections Project Director
New York Hall of Science
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> -----Original Message-----
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> I must geekily add that Stephenson's best novel remains the
> classic "Snow Crash"
>
> Jonah Cohen
> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
> Science Center of Connecticut
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> "If Bush is gonna keep arguing against science, why not go
> all the way and argue against gravity? I bet he could
> convince some of his supporters that they're floating."
>            -Get Your War On
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> Last night I went to an author night with Neal Stephenson,
> who wrote Cryptonomicon, Zodiac (an "eco-thriller" named
> after the boat, not the constellations), and most recently a
> trilogy of books chronicling Newton, Leibniz, buccaneers, and
> the court of Louis the fourteenth. Someone asked if he
> visited the locations in his books for research. He said he
> did, but sometimes they had changed too much in the last
> three centuries to be helpful. If that happened, he had a
> solution--he would almost always find the information he
> needed in a local museum. While he may not have visited ASTC
> members for this research, I still wanted pass along his
> public appreciation for our field.
> --
>   Katherine Ziff
>   Manager of School and Community Programs
>   Bay Area Discovery Museum
>   557 McReynolds Road
>   Sausalito, Ca 94965
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> (415) 339-3922
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