New books from one of my favorite authors? Awesome!
The "Virtual Light - Idoru - Futurematic" cycle by William Gibson, which I read on vacation, was rather disappointing. It's possible that the translation had something to do with it, but somehow the first two books felt quite unfinished—a lot started and hinted at, but nothing really polished. The fact that everything was brought together in Futurematic was some compensation (and I think the third part is also the strongest), but the whole thing couldn't really excite me.
Let's hope Neal Stephenson doesn't fall victim to the cycle sickness known as "running out of breath, producing boring filler material." After all, he's only written standalone novels so far. But Cryptonomicon is such a brilliant thing that it deserves to be expanded.
At Telepolis News you'll find the original article.