Reviews Coming in of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

Laura Miller — who may be even more of a Stephenson superfan than I am — weighs in here at the L.A. Times. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it today. Both raves. The only negative piece I’ve seen is in the Washington Post, where Michael Dirda compared it to Harold Brodkey’s Runaway Soul, which I [...]

This Just In: Alan Moore Smart

The other day — some other day, I forget which, not this one — io9 pointed me to this documentary by/about Alan Moore: That’s the first installment. For the rest click through to io9. The production values are amazingly cheesy, even for 1987, but the force of his ultimate-genius-freak personality pushes through. It’s just him [...]