Neal Stephenson on Sci-Fi / Fantasy Actors

full video on: fora.tv bestselling author Neal Stephenson theorizes why the 'American "Science Fiction / Fantasy actors like Lucy Lawless, Hugo Weaving and Leonard Nimoy as is often the end of voting in such roles. ----- Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction against Mundane Culture at Gresham College. Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its development over more than a century. Neal Stephenson is theBestselling author of such novels as Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle. He is known for writing science fiction (usually post-cyberpunk white) and his interests often lead him into investigations of society, mathematics, cryptology, currency and the history of science.