![]() ![]() (Well, actually not quite, but something similar that he explains in the Acknowledgements.) But unlike me, he didn’t just laugh it off and go in to bed (after giving the dog her customary bedtime treat, of course). Neal Stephenson must have wondered the very same thing. It was a huge, beautiful full moon, and for some reason as I gazed at it I fantasized: What if as I was looking at it, the moon fractured into a bunch of smaller pieces? What would it feel like to see that, and what would it mean for the future of the Earth and of me? One night during the last full moon before I started reading this book, I was out walking the dog around the yard just before bedtime. Either slowly with a lot of character introductions and scene setting ( Reamde) or with a bang, hurling you headlong into the action such that the first time you come up for air you’re on about page 100. Neal Stephenson starts his big books in one of two ways. ![]()
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