The Hit Rate With Cryptonomacon

With cryptonomacon and some of the other books, i do think you have a very high a hit rate. Yet more accessing literature, be it on line or on paper, than talking to experts. There's a lag that happens where am when you're writing the book. People don't know who you are, necessarily. And then after the book comes out, they want to talk to you. So for example, in he case of the baroke cycle, i was doing all the research for london and the early royal society from available literature,. not really having a lot of direct contacts into that world.