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.

If you are a fan; if you enjoyed Cryptonomicon then it is time to head over to Amazon and pre-order Quicksilver. I’ve been waiting so long I now probably need to re-read Cryptonomicon before the September 23rd ship date for Quicksilver. Via Kevin Drum and Short Hope Unfiltered.

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