If you are a Neal Stephenson fan, there’s a great interview with him up on Slashdot .
Snow Crash remains one of my all time favorite books and losing myself in The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon was the only way I survived a two week safari in Africa (the seminal moment of the trip was captured on video tape by my brother – I was sitting in a chair looking sunburned, dirty, tired, and generally miserable at which point I said “if I ever talk about going to Africa again, show me this video.”)
I’ve been holding off tackling the The Baroque Cycle trilogy (Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) , The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) , The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) ), but as someone once said, “I yield to superior firepower.”