Be still, my beating heart!

In a question-and-answer on io9, Neal Stephenson delighted me to my very core.

Icecold Davis: Any chance of revisiting the world of the Baroque Cycle? 

Neal Stephenson: I would like nothing better than to dwindle into a long retirement writing books in that vein. Maybe I will. But not now.

I have purchased three copies of each brick in the Baroque Cycle (hardcover, paperback, ebook). This comment delights!


This post's theme word is forficate, "deeply forked." Readers are entranced by the forficate plot, winding sentence structure, and delicate interweaving of plausible fiction with fascinating historical fact.