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[madbaker]

Yippee! Neal Stephenson's latest, Quicksilver, is coming out in late September. What makes this journal-worthy is that he's doing a couple of local signings: Cody's in Berkeley and Kepler's in Menlo Park.

This is an author whose works I enjoy immensely. He's also fairly misanthropic and hates doing tours. I think I got some of my copies signed when Cryptonomicon came out, but I'd given up hope that it would ever happen again.

Booked in the calendar (so to speak...)

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Neal Stephenson signing dates

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

9/25 - Cody's
9/26 - Kepler's
Both are at 7:30 PM.

Re: Neal Stephenson signing dates

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the headzup!

Z

P.S.: I thought Neal was a very nice guy, when I met him at
Cody's on the _Cryptonomicon_ tour...

Re: Neal Stephenson signing dates

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

He seemed fine to me, but in his own words from his website:
In a recent review of one of my novels, I was described as "Umberto Eco without the charm" and so it should be pretty clear in what direction I am going. Whenever I find myself in a room full of people, or discover a lot of e-mail from strangers in my inbox, my first thought is: "where did all these people come from and how do I make them go away?" This---i.e. the discovery that I am a classic introvert---does not render "Bad Correspondent" invalid, but it does fill out the picture a little.