Go back to previous page
Forum URL: http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi
Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 6
Message ID: 50
#50, RE: Scifi or Fantasy
Posted by Derek Andersen on Apr-13-01 at 01:15 AM
In response to message #32
That reminds me--has anyone else here read Neal Stephenson's The Big U? It was recently reprinted (which, in and of itself, amazed me--I think I remember reading a comment from Stephenson about never wanting it to be printed again...) and I, fan of his work that I am, picked it up and read it in January.

Very odd. Firefights in the cafeteria, a tank designed to be used inside the university itself, nuclear wastes below the school, railguns...

It's probably the closest thing I've seen (stylistically) to the first UF Core story (although The Big U predates UF by a few years) as far as published fiction goes. Just curious to see if any of the Eyrie crew have read it...and maybe what they thought of it, if they have.


Derek Andersen