Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedNeal Stephenson: evaluation
17 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
“We think of Victorian novels as a kind of stodgy, old-school way of writing, but he was all over the map in terms of nutty, random things that he would put into his books.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Neal Stephenson
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 17 Jul 2019
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Is Dickens an influence on you? Oh yeah, he’s totally an influence as a prose stylist, and as someone who’s . . . We think of Victorian novels as a kind of stodgy, old-school way of writing, but he was all over the map in terms of nutty, random things that he would put into his books. The science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon — underrated or overrated?…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.