Neal Stephenson

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Touchstone by Laurie R. King Crocodile On The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (re-read) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

These techno-thrillers not only use every bit of jargon from the hacker's cookbook, and a fair amount of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson to boot, ... and more »

The other finalists were “Anathem” by Seattle, WA, writer Neal Stephenson; “Ill Met in the Arena” by Dave Duncan, who lives in Victoria, BC; “Long Walks, ...

I read a book by Neal Stephenson recently called “Cryptonomicon.” It's not a book that I ever would have read otherwise, but Liam passed it on to me. ... and more »

I know this is really about typewriters, but i feel i should mention gigantic novel writer Neal Stephenson hand writes everything. ... and more »

In Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, a seminal sci-fi work of the 90s, one of the plots is that there was this whole metaverse exactly like Second Life, ... and more »

In Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, a seminal sci-fi work of the 90s, one of the plots is that there was this whole metaverse exactly like Second Life, ... and more »

He learns of the existence of a new drug called Snow Crash, that's both a computer virus and a reality-altering substance. He's the undisputed champion of ... and more »

I have managed to read most of a very thorny and complicated novel -- "Anathem," by Neal Stephenson - highly recommended for anyone who loves math and logic ...

I also tried using it in both the male and female versions with Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, but that only made the difficult novel with it’s unique vocabulary even more ponderous. For straightforward book reading, however, the Kindle is great, ...

 MA It reminds me of what Neal Stephenson defined in his book Snow Crash as a "gargoyle": someone constantly wired into the Metaverse, the book's version of a virtual world. I can't imagine many people encumbering themselves with this tech on a daily basis ...

 CO - By Chauncey Mabe McClatchy Newspapers Much as I enjoyed Neal Stephenson's ravishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious "Anathem," I can't help but think it ...

Fiction review: 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson  FL - Dec 14, 2008 Much as I enjoyed Neal Stephenson's ravishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious Anathem, I can't help but think it would be a better novel with a lot less ...

And what a plot that is. The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon (if you liked them) could be described simply as interesting things happening to interesting people, with the plot almost secondary. That's not the case here, although there are certainly interesting things happening to inter...

By Chip A recent Ask Metafilter thread posed a rather odd question: Are there any female writers whose work is similar to Neal Stephenson? The reason I found the question somewhat odd (other than the whole “why do the writer’s chromosomes matter?” part) was that the requester was looking partic...

By samzenpus Max Tardiveau writes "I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Anathem. I was awaiting it with some anticipation because I absolutely loved Stephenson's best-known novels: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon. One of Stephenson's non-fiction pieces, calle...

By Cadenza@iscabbs.com Quicksilver> I actually enjoyed it. It was tough slogging but it was definitely worth it, and I felt like I learned something in the process. I certainly have a better appreciation of Newton and Liebniz now. Terry Pratchett> I think it's possible to experience God without becoming mo...

That's the sort of thing Neal Stephenson writes in his hacker novel Snow Crash, a fascinating, horrifically violent semi-satire where the hero/protagonist of the story is named Hiro Protagonist. This book coined the terms "avatar" and ...

By Alice(noreply@blogger.com) The Queen of Bedlam - Robert McCammon A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter S Miller On the stack: Flood - Stephen Baxter Superpowers - David J Schwartz Mr Baggins - John D Rateliff The Gone-away World - Nick Harkaway Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

msaari's review: "An excellent book, just as good as Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle (or actually even slightly better than Baroque Cycle, which kind of lagged at some points). The world is just fabulous, and I would've loved getting ...

I was so taken with it that, as soon as I finished the galley, I went on to read Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and In the Beginning was the Command Line, and I've gotten through a good part of the Baroque Cycle as well. ...

By bill(noreply@blogger.com) Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon There is a lot of heavy bamboo in front of this truck, dozens of makeshift turnpikes blocking their path to the river, for the officers of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet, and of the Fourth Marines, who dreamed up this little operation forgot to take the Friday Af...

I need new sci-fi or fantasy books I have read and enjoyed: William Gibson, Nick Sagan, Neal Stephenson, Richard Morgan, I love cyber punky - urban - post apocalyptic -stuff with a dark edge. I also enjoy humourous books Douglas Adams -read 'em all Terry Pratchett -read 'em all Neil Gaiman -...

 United Kingdom - After all, Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon were all science fiction, and all long, but were none the less magnificent analyses ...

By brad@feld.com Tomorrow night we were going to have a nice dinner at Black Cat and just chill out.  However, I just found out - via a tweet from Jeff Herman - that Neal Stephenson is in town for a talk and book signing (for Anathem) at the Boulder Book Store.  Since Stephenson is one of our favorite contemporary...

Now that I'm back home, I finally have time to peruse the many dozens of fine poem entries we got for the Anathem Giveaway Contest. Each wins a copy of Neal Stephensons Anathem, courtesy of HarperCollins Publishing. Click on their Twitter alias to read their winning haiku! NemaVeze tweeted...

By Dustin Kirkland I just finished the most thought provoking cyberpunk novel I think I've ever read: Daemon by Leinad Zeraus. Here's my review (without spoilers). Daemon comfortably stands with Neal Stephenson's Crytonomicon and Snow Crash, or Philip K. ...

 United States - After long but interesting passages securing the meaning of thought itself, we happily follow our protagonist on his contemplative journey until all ...

 NY - Despite its length at 960 pages, the fast pacing of the book is reminiscent of Stephenson’s earlier, shorter, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. ...

 IL - Sep 12, 2008 Tech companies still refer to Stephenson’s 1991 novel “Snow Crash,” a thriller that popularized the concepts of virtual worlds and avatars. ...

 OH - Anathem stands tall next to Stephenson's Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon as well as works by other science-fiction writers starting with Jules Verne. ...

His first appearance is good, too: Raven offers the protagonist a hit of Snow Crash—a drug-like computer program made to be accessed by people in a virtual metaverse, and although the offer is made while the two's avatars are in the ...

Science fiction: Cory Doctorow: Little Brother Alistair Reynolds: House of Suns -- new space opera Neal Stephenson: Anathem Thomas Disch: Word of God -- in this novel Thomas Disch reveals that he's God, and that his opponent is Phillip K. Dick, which he's been fighting for all eternity.

By bill(noreply@blogger.com) Stephenson sees a parallel to the George W. Bush-era wars between science and religion, made possible because the general population is either indifferent or hostile to extended rational thought. "I could never get that idea, the notion that society in general is becoming aliterate, ou...

 Australia - The Troposphere itself feels like something borrowed from Neal Stephenson or William Gibson and the similarities to The Matrix are many and distracting. ...

By 1337g33k “Al got an advance review copy of neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem – which looks really good! — and discovered that it came wiht a CD of music inspired by the story. Incredibly weird, wonderful music. ...

By Cory Doctorow Al got an advance review copy of neal Stephenson's new book Anathem -- which looks really good! -- and discovered that it came wiht a CD of music inspired by the story. Incredibly weird, wonderful music. I’ve just listened to several of ...

By Mick Bradley My GoodReads review of the novel I just finished: Snow Crash Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. My review. rating: 3 of 5 stars Great characters, awesome concept. Lots of fun and interesting stuff. Unfortunately, it's all held together by a ...

REVIEW: 'Interface' By Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George  IL - May 12, 2008 Stephenson and J. Frederick George also have another book set in Iowa called “The Cobweb” at a fictional university called Eastern Iowa University, ...

bezoar44's review: "I loved this book, and think it manages to be the simultaneously the best cyberpunk novel and the best parody of the genre (and there aren't too many genres where that's possible). The neologism "burb boxes" still ...

By Brandon Keim Cyberpunk pioneer turned history junky Neal Stephenson described the manufacture of wootz steel in The Confusion, the second volume of his frustrating, exhilirating and historical awe-inspiring Baroque Cycle. As luck would have it, ...

Ever since Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash in 1992, the virtual world he described in his seminal dystopian novel has been the Holy Grail for a generation of tech whizzes. The metaverse, as Stephenson called it, was essentially the Internet.

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By kmw@reason.com (Katherine Mangu-Ward) To Do this weekend: See 300, the surprise blockbuster about the battle of Thermopylae based on a graphic novel of the same name. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle trilogy, reviewed the movie last week in The New York Times under the outstanding he...

The "Metaverse" is a phrase that was first used in Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash. In this science fiction novel written in 1992, the Metaverse can be accessed via public-access computer terminals where you then control your character known as an avatar. This phrase a...

 Seattle - The Diamond Age is headier than Snow Crash, though not as complex -- or long -- as Cryptonomicon or The Baroque Cycle, the latter of which is so long we've ...

 Australia - Nov 22, 2006 Publisher Penguin has opened a business where it promotes the 1992 book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson that inspired operator Linden Labs to create the game. ...

By BL Ochman Penguin, the first major publisher to join Second Life, has created a marketing plan for the paperback of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash in Second Life, The Book Standard reports. Greene & Heaton, a London-based ...

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) Cory Doctorow: Penguin Books has launched an in-game publishing venture in the online world Second Life, leading with Neal Stephenson's seminal Snow Crash -- naturally, since Snow Crash's Metaverse inspired Second Life! ...

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While writers like Verner Vinge and Neal Stephenson came before him with their speculative novels about the metaverse, Doctorow is the first author to influence the direction, growth, and culture of an actual online world. ...