Some Remarks

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Author	Neal Stephenson
Publisher	William Morrow
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composed of Stephenson's previously published articles, essays, and interviews although it does contain a previously unpublished essay titled "Arsebestos" and an unfinished short story "Under-Constable Proudfoot."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)