Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

Fiction that's not considered good unless it has interesting ideas in it. You can write a minimalist short story that's set in a trailer park or a Connecticut suburb that might be considered a literary masterpiece or well-regarded by literary types, but science fiction people wouldn't find it very interesting unless it had somewhere in it a cool idea that made them say, "That's interesting. I never thought of that before." If it's got that, then science fiction people will embrace it and bring it into the big-tent view of science fiction. That's really the role that science fiction has com to play in literature right now. In arty lit, it's become uncool to try to come to grips with ideas per se.

god he's such a snob about "ideas" as if technological ideas are superior to, say, ideas about what it means to be human

though he does love DFW so at least there's that

(right after this, the interviewer disagrees with him citing Don DeLillo as an example)

—p.254 The Salon Interview (238) by Neal Stephenson 7 years, 5 months ago