Goodreads asked Kathryn Cramer:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kathryn Cramer Neal Stephenson came up with the idea for Hieroglyph. It is a response to a conversation he had with ASU President Michael Crow. Stephenson had complained that really big, visionary projects weren't being done anymore, and Crow responded that maybe that was because SF writers like Stephenson weren't writing visionary books anymore. Hieroglyph is Stephenson's answer. However, he is a novelist, not an anthologist. Ed Finn, of ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination, and I implemented Stephenson's vision.

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