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Neal Stephenson, spaceman Tom Shippey TLS

Torque Control found this 11/10/2008 on entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

s new novel is a great thick brick of a book, weighing one-and-a-half kilos, its 937 pages ending with three appendices, or Calcas , which are in effect geometric puzzles-cum-explanations. Phrases like six-dimensional space are common enough in science fiction, but Stephenson really wants his ...