Sometimes Fascinating, Sometimes Excruciating, 'Fall' Hums With Energy
Neal Stephenson's massive new novel mashes up characters readers will recognize from several previous reads, and sends them on a ride that's by turns maddening, overstuffed and revolutionary.
Neal Stephenson has a new book out, called Fall, or Dodge In Hell.
For some of you, that means nothing. Couldn't care less. For some of you, it's a curiosity — Stephenson is a big deal among sci-fi fans of a certain taste and vintage, and adding a new book to his canon is, at the very least, noteworthy.
But I know that, for a few of you out there, this is monumental. A fully-fledged nerd holiday. Doesn't matter what it's about. Doesn't matter where it's set or what weirdness it concerns. Content be damned, you can tell
