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I found it to be really bad and a great disappointment, and I am a huge Stephenson fan.

I would pretty much buy anything Stephenson writes, but I wasn't all that happy with this book.

Wow this looks oddly familiar having read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson recently.

Reading The Singularity kinda reminded of a Neal Stephenson novel.

That thing belongs in a Neal Stephenson novel.

I definitely liked it the least of all the Stephenson I've read.

It's not like Stephenson invented that sentence.

I'm a long time Stephenson fan, have read everything he wrote multiple times (excepting Seveneves for the moment), and Anathem is my most favourite of his works.

I've never read Stephenson for the characters.

In one of his recent interviews, Stephenson said that he was intentionally playing off the silly trope of Star Trek type aliens that are basically just caricatures of humans with this-or-that trait emphasized.

> Stephenson builds up a sense of brutal inevitability, of humanity's insignificance in the cosmos that had me putting the book down for hours at a time, unable to read on (but my curiosity always overcame my sorrow).

This stuff is straight out of "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.

I used to think the "mediaglyphs" in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age were far-fetched.

I pretty much gave up Stephenson after I got half way through "Cryptonomicon".

In it he actually addressed what he calls the "Stephenson can't write endings" meme, as he calls it, at 10:54 going on for about three minutes [2].

It just felt like Stephenson's science and drama subtracted from the real-world science and drama the book was inspired by.

Stephenson had an Authors @Google talk in 2008 [1], which was mostly about his book Anathem.

Well, and a long lingering interest in Sid Meier's Pirates and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.