An Interview with Neal Stephenson

This interview from "Reason" was passed on to me by friend Darko Vader, who knows of my passion for Stephenson's novels. I polished off the third volume of the Baroque Cycle trilogy this fall, and found the whole thing enormously satisfying. Currently, younger son Kerry (14) is reading and rocking out on Snow Crash, while I've returned to Cryptonomicon to beguile a few spare hours during my spring break. The dude can write, no question - his books remind me of all the things I loved about Thomas Pynchon when I first read V and The Crying of Lot 49 - only Stephenson's books are consistently a lot more fun and more approachable.