On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Cory Geesaman <cory@geesaman.com> wrote:
> The guy hasn't really made any good sci-fi and seems to be making an attempt
> to hype up whatever his upcoming works are by getting his name out.
I think you're making the mistake of assuming that, because you
haven't heard of him, he's not a good author or not significant in his
field. He happens to be one of my favorite authors; I had to take a
few minutes to calm down before responding ;-)
Snow Crash was a pretty significant work when it came out - Time has
it on its list of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923
(when TIME Magazine started) along with Slaughterhouse Five, Animal
Farm, Gone With the Wind, Lolita, and others:
http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/#snow-crash-1992-by-neal-stephenson
The Diamond Age is sci-fi, and won Hugo and Locus awards and was
shortlisted for the Nebula award. Anathem is another sci-fi work
which got somewhat mixed reviews, but was #1 on the NYT bestseller
list (in the Hardcover Fiction category) and won the Locus Award for
best sci-fi novel in 2009, was nominated for the Hugo and other
awards, and is one of the few books to have been reviewed in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7221/pdf/456446a.pdf
He also wrote Cryptonomicon, which isn't (exactly) sci-fi but is one
of my favorite novels. Also, when he spoke at MIT the other day (I
couldn't attend because I had prior obligations) the room was filled
to capacity. So while you may not like his work personally (which I
would certainly respect - different strokes and all that) I think it's
hard to support your statement that he hasn't made any good sci-fi.
-Dan
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