Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Author	Neal Stephenson
Publication date	2012
ISBN	9780062024435

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction by the speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson. It is primarily composed of Stephenson's previously published articles, essays, and interviews although it does contain the previously unpublished short stories "Arsebestos" and "Under-Constable Proudfoot."

Contents

Source:

• "Introduction"
• "Arsebestos" - not previously published (2012)

In "Arsebestos", Stephenson draws connections between characters in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol who suffer from a lack of physical mobility and his own chiropractic issues in order to argue for the adoption of more physically active work spaces.

• "Slashdot Interview" - (2004)
• "Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010" - (2010)
• "It's All Geek to Me" - (2007)
• "Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out" - (2006)
• "Gresham College Lecture" - (2008)
• "Spew" - (1994)
• Selected excerpts from "In the Kingdom of Mao Bell" - (1994)
• "Under-Constable Proudfoot" - not previously published (2012)
• "Mother Earth, Mother Board" - (1996)
• "The Salon Interview" - (2004)
• "Blind Secularism" - (1993)
• "Time Magazine Article about Anathem" - (2012)
• "Everything and More Foreword" - (2003)
• "The Great Simoleon Caper" - (1995)
• "Locked In" - (2011)
• "Innovation Starvation" - (2011)
• "Why I Am a Bad Correspondent" - (1998)