Erm. Because it's by Neal Stephenson. I enjoy his work a lot, but reading it requires Effort. With a capital "E".
Yeah, figured it was something like that. Haven't actually read him before.
Bester the psi-cop was named after Bester the author, who was very good indeed. The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination are both fairly short and excellent; I think they're both in print at the moment.
Yeah, I figured a people doing a science fiction tv show would have taken the name from the author. Pretty cool!
I'll have to keep the author in mind, but unfortunately, I don't end up reading books I want to these days, the library around here isn't that great. And I try not to buy too many books. So I end up reading what looks good at the library...
By the way, have you read anything by Stephen Baxter? I found him at the library and quite enjoyed his Destiny's Children books (Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendant).
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Date: 2006-06-30 10:17 pm (UTC)Erm. Because it's by Neal Stephenson. I enjoy his work a lot, but reading it requires Effort. With a capital "E".
Yeah, figured it was something like that. Haven't actually read him before.
Bester the psi-cop was named after Bester the author, who was very good indeed. The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination are both fairly short and excellent; I think they're both in print at the moment.
Yeah, I figured a people doing a science fiction tv show would have taken the name from the author. Pretty cool!
I'll have to keep the author in mind, but unfortunately, I don't end up reading books I want to these days, the library around here isn't that great. And I try not to buy too many books. So I end up reading what looks good at the library...
By the way, have you read anything by Stephen Baxter? I found him at the library and quite enjoyed his Destiny's Children books (Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendant).