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First I've heard of this.

I'm a real Stephenson fan.  Genuflect, genuflect.  Cryptonomicon and
the Baroque Cycle were, collectively, the best book I'd read in 50
years.  I've read the whole four volumes 10 times.

Seveneves red-lined my Suspension of Disbelief, pinned it and bent the
needle.  It's the first (and, until FALL, the only) Stephenson novel
that I've read only once and then with little pleasure.

I keep hoping that someone will undertake to put the whole
Cryptonomicon/Baroque Cycle on film with the same effort put into
LoTR.  I don't know how to get in touch with Peter Jackson. :-)

I have this notion:  Neal's agent comes to him and says, "Neal baby,
look Neal, you write these *great* novels but all the really important
stuff, all the best stuff, happens *inside* the characters' *heads*.
It's, like, really hard to put thoughts or amazement or someone doing
a stunning double-take on film.  Can't you just write something where
the important stuff actually *happens*?  Then we can make a movie and
we'll both get ridiculously rich.

And Neal pauses for a moment, then says, "Yeah, I can do that."  And
goes home and writes REAMDE.

Jeez,  REAMDE would make a great action movie with far less work than
scripting a screen version of Cryptomicon and Baroque Cycle.  Instead,
they (yew kno, "they") are going to make yet another, probably
tedious, space opera?

Well, I wish Neal all the best, hope "they" end up giving him a lot of
money.  I owe him for many, many hours of pleasure including having
learned more about 17th c. history than I know about the 8 decades
I've lived through myself.

But could someone please give Peter Jackson a call about Cryptonomicon
and The Baroque Cycle?  Given the insane complications of organizing
and funding a major movie,  I might even live long enough to see it.

ObRASW: Well, Enoch Root and the heavy gold, right?  

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada