{"id":51233,"date":"2024-05-28T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51233"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:42:02","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-diamond-age-by-neal-stephenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/05\/28\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-diamond-age-by-neal-stephenson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>39\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/8dd47ec0-a6f8-4e55-a9ec-3b620e683166\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1996 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>As good as every other time I&#8217;ve read it, and I think it&#8217;s still my favorite of Stephenson&#8217;s novels. &#8220;Modern Victorians with ubiquitous nanotechnology create a fancy children&#8217;s book&#8221; might not sound like that fascinating of a concept, but it definitely is. In addition to the oft-mentioned things about Stephenson&#8217;s writing that always work for me but don&#8217;t work at all for others \u2014 the snark, digressions, and sidetracks \u2014 it&#8217;s his ability to convey highly technical concepts in understandable form, which is highlighted here in some of the stories that the Primer tells, that has always been a big part of the appeal of this book for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ns_tda-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Diamond Age\" title=\"ns_tda.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: As good as every other time I&#8217;ve read it, and I think it&#8217;s still my favorite of Stephenson&#8217;s novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2012,3313,4095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}