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Neal is Currently Reading

Neal is currently reading

Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #1)

by Isaac Asimov

bookshelves: science-fiction, currently-reading

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Jan 27, 2025 08:18AM

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The Faded Sun Trilogy (The Faded Sun, #1-3)

by C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: science-fiction, currently-reading

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— Feb 22, 2024 07:32AM

Apr 23, 2023 01:40PM

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

bookshelves: mainstream, currently-reading

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"Ugh, what a dreary mess. But I shall finish it!" — Jan 16, 2024 01:26PM

Jan 30, 2023 02:16PM

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Neal’s Quotes

“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

74 likes

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: commodity, economics, science-fiction, spice, supply-chain

559 likes

“This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

tags: graduate-school, humor

59 likes

“There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery”
― Neal Stephenson

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“The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

tags: humorous

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