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What do George Clooney and local SF author Neal Stephenson have in common? The diamond age:

Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.

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Seattlest has come to borrow from you again.

Seattlest has not yet read Elizabeth Kostova's highfalutin' vampire tale The Historian. (Our queue position at the library is still in the triple digits.) We're hoping for a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Neil Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, but we secretly fear that it'll turn out to be more like Anita Blake meets The Da Vinci Code.