September 24, 2003

Quicksilver

You'll probably see discussion of Neal Stephenson's new novel Quicksilver all over the blogosphere for a while. It's thick, it's supposed to be complex. I'm looking forward to my copy arriving real soon and expect a serious downturn in blogging for however many days it will take me to finish.

To help out folks who want to dig deeper or want to clarify a confusing point Stephenson has created a web site full of annotations. It is based on Wiki and Stephenson has a bunch of annotations already up and is planning more:

In our first phase, we are annotating the ideas and historical period explored in Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, seeding the Metaweb with an initial base of information. We are currently working on 106 articles, and hope you will expand and relate these and many other entries.
Read and annotate!

Via Boing Boing.

Posted by Steve on September 24, 2003
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