France Neal Stephenson : If Stephenson comes up in conversation, ask the people around you if Stephenson is cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk. Let them battle it out while you eat corn chips. Also, sometimes Stephenson has this really amazing beard. ...

 CA movement. cs.one's audio/visual effects, gameplay and Rez like environment were inspired by Cyberspace as described by William Gibson in his award winning Cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's vision of the matrix in Snow Crash. ...

 Finland The word namshub is used in the cyberpunk novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson to describe an ancient magical language which could be used to program the human mind. Ja siis Matti E. Simonaho voi varmaan auttaa, jos ette ymmärrä mitä tarkoitan.

 NJ Dick's writing pre-sages things like virtual reality, birthed the cyberpunk movement with an obvious influence on William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash as well as Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net. Where would the Wachowskis ...

 Hong Kong - and Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson. Here is what links these leading lights in the sci-fi subgenres of cyberpunk and steam punk to the history of ...

  Canada - Dec 18, 2008 Paper chains hold more titles for both children and adult, written on the large links, uniting Jane Eyre with cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver ...

“Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson. An awesome cyberpunk novel. I would say, better than Neuromancer. The main character’s name is Hiro Protagonist. How cool is that. He’s a hacker who doesn’t believe in guns so he uses a samurai sword ...

By Ben Neal Stephenson wrote two of the greatest SF novels of the nineties. Snow Crash made cyberpunk hip and enjoyable and compulsive reading - something William Gibson, who only invented the genre, could never quite manage - and The Diamond ...

 Austria - Nov 17, 2008 Zwar zählt Stephenson mit Werken wie "Snow Crash" zur so genannten Cyberpunk-Unterströmung in der SF-Literazur, zwar hat er vor anderthalb Jahrzehnten den ...

 Germany - Nov 5, 2008 Mit ihm kehrt er zu seinen utopischen Anfängen zurück, als er mit Titeln wie "Snow Crash" oder "Diamond Age" im Nano- und Cyberpunk reüssierte. ...

 UK - The use of Avatar to mean online virtual bodies was popularised by Neal Stephenson in his cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1992). In Snow Crash, the term Avatar ...

 - Greatly influenced by Cyberpunk, the genre grew into a second iteration through such authors as Michael Moorcock, James P. Blaylock, Neal Stephenson, ...

 NY - Oct 4, 2008 Called by some the first "post-cyberpunk" novel, it's got energy, humor and ideas to spare. Almost every page burns with a love of language, ...

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 United States - Called by some the first "post-cyberpunk" novel, it's got energy, humor and ideas — a subtext on the link among viruses, language and religion — to spare. ...

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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. ...

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

 TX - His breakthrough book, 1992's "Snow Crash," was the last great cyberpunk novel and set the conceptual framework for the online environment Second Life. ...

 CA - Called by some the first "post-cyberpunk" novel, it's got energy, humor and ideas -- a subtext on the link among viruses, language and religion -- to spare. ...

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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, ...

Out of This World: Great Sci-Fi  - Because Neal Stephenson is probably best known for his classic science fiction cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (first published in 1992 and generally thought to ...

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 David Rothman Alex is an unashamed computer geek whose passions range from language-learning and Scottish country dancing to computational linguistics and 3D worlds. He loves sci-fi, among other genres–especially cyberpunk. Alex’s favorite Russian book is nearly anything by Sergey Lukyanenko,...

 UK - Apr 19, 2006 Neal Stephenson, heir to the original cyberpunk generation led by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, has moved into the historical novel - hey, the past is the ...

 OH - great book. And it is not nearly as good as recent works by other cyberpunk masters like Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. If ...