Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The World Outside the Web: Neal Stephenson's new book upends geek chic (23 Sep 2003) Stephenson's new book, Quicksilver, is a massive work of historical fiction strong enough to slam the lid shut on the coffin of Internet triumphalism, and hefty enough (at nearly 1,000 pages in hardcover) to hold it down for good. Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2088510/ Read 21 more articles from Slate sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Accessible Header Images With CSS And XHTML This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy