Diamond Age coming as a TV series

Via SFSignal, SCI FI Wire announces the new SciFi channel shows.

The one that has got me incredibly excited is The Diamond Age, adapted from Neal Stephenson's novel. I loved that book, and Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite authors.

The good news?
"Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV."
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Also...
"...a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions."

Wow. Very cool.