CA Neal Stephenson (the author of "Snow Crash," "Cryptonomicon" and many other "cyber-cool" works) must be smiling today. But, the politically liberal adult in me, running a small software business that processes thousands of records containing ...

 AR Science-fiction fans will gather in the library May 13 from 6 pm to 7 pm to discuss "Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson. The public is invited, even if they haven't read the book. Teens will meet in the library Monday, May 18, at 6 pm to discuss Kevin ...

 AR The next meeting will be held May 13 from 6 pm to 7 pm, when "Cryptonomicon," by Neal Stephenson, will be discussed. The public is invited, even if they haven't read the book. Bella Vista Library hosts this event the third Wednesday of the month. ...

25. The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm MacPherson. 26. Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community, gathered and edited by Kate Cavett (Hand in Hand Productions). 27. Letters From Attica by Sam Melville. 28. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

d. One thing I liked about the book in the early going was that Stephenson seemed to be restraining his more gonzo impulses; it's not that Snow Crash wasn't fun, but I was hoping for something different. And this is different, but the gonzo crept back in. Stephenson can be funny--hell, he can be...

 TX I really hope that Neal Stephenson is in attendance for the show. Like there's a chance he's not. Anyway, if you don't think that's cool, then you haven't read Cryptonomicon, which you should, and then read Anathem, which is better so read it last. ...

By Alice(noreply@blogger.com) House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski Chronicles of the Xandim - Maggie Furey City at the Edge of Time - Greg Bear Feast of Souls - Celia Friedman Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Dragonscarpe - Pat McNamara Still waiting for it to turn up from Amazon

 CA - Neal Stephenson broke my heart with his boring, unwieldy Baroque Cycle. But the Stephenson I know and love from Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, ...

By Phyrexian Neal Stephenson is the best-selling author of such novels as Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. He is best know for writing science fiction (in the postcyberpunk genre) and his interests often lead him into investigations of society, mathematics, crypt...

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...

Cryptonomicon - by Neal Stephenson. It seems like most of the books I read now I do not finish. Cryptonomicon showed up on my desk one morning in my inbasket. I had to walk around the office and ask detective-type questions to figure ...

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 Simon Wistow As a card carrying member of the nerd cabal I am required to like Neal Stephenson. Which I would anyway. Especially the sadly overlooked "Zodiac" and "Cryptonomicon" which is my go-to book to reread when I have insomnia. ...

By Boris Legradic I have been a Neal Stephenson fan for quite some time - since I started with Snow Crash and Diamond Age a couple of years ago. I also enjoyed Cryptonomicon immensly. Then I read Quicksilver, the first book of the Baroque Cycle. ...

Jonathan Coe The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck Heartwood - James Lee Burke Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Man and Boy - Tony Parsons The Map Of Love - Ahdaf Soueif ...

Neal Stephenson. The author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the new Anathem discusses his methods, the lack thereof, and an xkcd comic mocking him. malcom gladwell. Nov 18, 2008. Malcolm Gladwell. The author of Blink, The Tipping ...

By Daughter Number 3 Future Favorites? Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman; Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson; His Panic by Geraldo Rivera; Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama. Guilty Pleasures. Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series ...

The author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the new Anathem discusses his methods, the lack thereof, and an xkcd comic mocking him.

One novel that gets the balance nearly perfectly is Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, which succeeds in being pointed and yet digressive, and its meanderings are always illustrative of the characters and related, somehow, to the central ...

For anyone who has not read Neal Stephenson's latest, Anathem..." Is it more like his door stopper cycle or the entertaining stuff he used to write before that (e.g., Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age)? ...

By willzter It’s a shame that Stephenson has gone down this path, as he wrote some cracking science fiction, starting with Snow Crash and more recently with Diamond Age. More recently, he penned Cryptonomicon, a non-sci-fi but brilliantly imagined, ...

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

 Canada - Nov 1, 2008 Snow Crash is a fast-paced soft science fiction story. Diamond Age is one of those rare books that really did make me cry. Cryptonomicon straddles two eras ...

By Adam Whitehead Dan Simmons: Hyperion · Dan Simmons: The Fall of Hyperion · Melinda Snodgrass: The Edge of Reason · Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon · Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver · Steph Swainston: The Year of Our War · Koushun Takami: Battle Royale ...

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 ...

 KY - Oct 23, 2008 Since that time, van Eck phreaking has been referenced in fiction (such as Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon — mentioned in 5 good security reads — and ...

READERS may be excused if they have never heard of Kinakuta. It is a tiny island dreamed up by Neal Stephenson in his novel “Cryptonomicon”. In the science-fiction classic, libertarian technologists and entrepreneurs try to turn it into a data haven for such things as anonymous online ban...

By brad The latest tome — and at 900 pages, I mean tome — from Neal Stephenson (author of Snow Crash, the Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon) is Anathem. I’m going to start with a more general review, then delve into deep spoilers after the jump. ...

 IL - Oct 17, 2008 “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, $29.95, 960 pages): The author of the much-praised “Cryptonomicon” imagines a futuristic planet where monklike ...

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 Kevin Holtsberry Alan Jacobs concludes his review of Neal Stephenson’s latest novel Anathem with this:. But this is the problem with all of Stephenson’s books of the past decade, starting with Cryptonomicon (1999): He has more energy than his readers ...

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...

In style if not substance, the book represents something of a departure from Stephenson's earlier novels, which include Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and the three volumes of the Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, ...

By jason I’ma big fan of Neal Stephenson, author of The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon and other assorted books. A few weeks ago I picked up Anathem at the store the day it was officially released. His previous books have been rich in story, ...

 Germany - so sind es in "Cryptonomicon" von Neal Stephenson (Goldmann, 2005) der britische Mathematiker Alan Turing und zwei fiktive Studienkollegen. ...

 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 Erika But of course, you can’t really understand the Baroque Cycle without having read Cryptonomicon. So the correct reading order is:. 1. Cryptonomicon 2. Quicksilver 3. The Confusion 4. The System of the World 5. Cryptonomicon ...

 UK - The scale of his works since Cryptonomicon in 1999 has been such as to require a greater commitment than some marriages. Even with Snow Crash (1993), ...

  USA - Although Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" and the three-volume "Baroque Cycle" had minor speculative aspects, "Anathem" is his first straight-out science ...

By Barbara Tom I am a big Neal Stephenson fan, starting with Snow Crash, a sci-fi classic. With Cryptonomicon, the author stepped into the world of historical fiction, using real people to help purely fictional ones break codes during World War II and ...

Alfred A. Knopf, $25 The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - By Neal Stephenson The author of "Cryptonomicon" imagines a planet in the future in which scientists, philosophers and mathematicians, nurturing knowledge, ...

 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. ...

By Dylan Tweney Other books by Stephenson: Your cheat sheet to his previous novels, from the reputation-making Snow Crash to the inspired and often-overlooked Diamond Age to the beefy and ambitious Cryptonomicon. Or, heck, pick up Zodiac for a fun, ...

Publishers of Anathem by Neal Stephenson--the Hugo-Award-winning SF author of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, among other novels--have posted a preview video for the book, which hits store shelves on Sept. 9.

 - Certainly, The Baroque Cycle has scope: The ancestors of Cryptonomicon characters cross paths with Isaac Newton and his peers against a backdrop of several ...

In an exclusive Q&A, Neal Stephenson--the Hugo-Award-winning SF author of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, among other novels--talks about his new novel, Anathem, and why people don't read more science fiction.

By Slashdot.org Smith writes "Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks — Anathem. Boing Boing has an excerpt from the amazing glossary (including a definition for 'bulshytt') so take a peek at ...

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...

By geoff@opinionatedgeek.com This book, Interface, is no Snow Crash. Hell, it's no Diamond Age or Cryptonomicon either. It's still better than the Baroque drivel though, so at least he's not at his worst here. Overall, the book is disappointing. ...

 - outside the guidebook genre turned up some interesting maps including one for Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Neal Stephenson’s globe trotting Cryptonomicon. ...

 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 ...

 NY - Best novel I’ve read this year was Neal Stephenson’s 1999 Cryptonomicon, but I read that for money, so it doesn’t really count. For fun I read Dan Jenkins’s ...

 NY - Dec 27, 2006 Best novel I’ve read this year was Neal Stephenson’s 1999 Cryptonomicon, but I read that for money, so it doesn’t really count. ...

 NY - Nov 13, 2006 Neal Stephenson-a-thon. How’s it going? people keep asking. Er, stalled by month-end obligations. I finished Cryptonomicon and got a few pages into ...

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