Some Remarks
{{Infobox book
|name=Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
| image = Some Remarks Essays and Other Writing.jpg
|publisher = William Morrow
|author=Neal Stephenson
|isbn=9780062024435
|pub_date=2012
}}
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composed of Stephenson's previously published articles, essays, and interviews although it does contain a previously unpublished essay titled "Arsebestos" and an unfinished short story "Under-Constable Proudfoot."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
- "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{{Cite web|url = http://www.avclub.com/review/neal-stephenson-emsome-remarks-essays-and-other-wr-85274|title = Neal Stephenson: Some Remarks: Essays And Other Writing|date = Sep 24, 2012|accessdate = Sep 9, 2015|website = A.V. Club|last = Heller|first = Jason}} in order to argue for the adoption of more physically active work spaces.
- "[http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/11/1239217/ask-neal-stephenson Slashdot Interview]" - (2004)
- "[http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/Stephenson-Metaphysics.pdf Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010]" - (2010)
- "[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/opinion/18stephenson.html It's All Geek to Me]" - (2007)
- "[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/opinion/turn-on-tune-in-veg-out.html Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out]" - (2006)
- "{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150113204838/http://library.fora.tv/2008/05/08/Neal_Stephenson_Science_Fiction_as_a_Literary_Genre Gresham College Lecture]}}" - (2008)
- "Spew" - (1994)
- Selected excerpts from "[http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive//2.02/mao.bell.html?person=neal_stephenson&topic_set=wiredpeople In the Kingdom of Mao Bell]" - (1994)
- "Under-Constable Proudfoot" - not previously published (2012)
- "Mother Earth Mother Board" - (1996)
- "[http://www.salon.com/2004/04/21/stephenson_4/ The Salon Interview]" - (2004)
- "[http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/oped40/lit-stephensonfinal.pdf Blind Secularism]" - (1993)
- "[https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864238_1864242,00.html Time] [https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864238_1864242,00.html Magazine Article] about Anathem" - (2012)
- "Everything and More Foreword" - (2003)
- "The Great Simoleon Caper" - (1995)
- "[http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/02/space_stasis.html Locked In]" - (2011)
- "[http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation Innovation Starvation]" - (2011)
- "Why I Am a Bad Correspondent" - (1998)