Neal Stephenson

The Long Now Foundation - San Francisco, CA What if we lived in a world where the long-term was taken seriously?At an event hosted by the Long Now Foundation, science fiction author Neal Stephenson reads from his latest novel ANATHEM. Afterwards he participates in a conversation with Ste...

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 »

 UK Lined up for best novel are Nick Harkaway’s The Gone-Away World, Flood by Stephen Baxter, Anathem by Neal Stephenson, and The Night Sessions by Ken McLeod. There will be talks and workshops, art displays, a dealer’s room featuring books and SF ...

 WA - be tailored to the needs and desires of the individual (think the three-dimensional “ractives” of Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel “The Diamond Age“). ...

  USA - Jan 3, 2009 Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi epic “Anathem” remains burdened by too many esoteric discussions of philosophy and physics, but the parts with actual storytelling ...

 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 ...

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...

Anathem' one of the year's best sci-fi books   United States - Dec 7, 2008 Anathem by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, 937 pages. $29.95). A tour-de-force of world building and high-concept speculation, wrapped around a ...

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 ...

For the crazy possibility of what COULD happen with nano tech, let me refer you to the sci-fi novel by Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age. Yes, it's sci fi, but it will begin to give you a glimpse of what nano can do. ...

 Canada - Oct 30, 2008 There's an irony that's not missed when you read "Anathem," the highly-anticipated book by bestselling sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson. Filled with those big, ...

What's On: Weekday Planner   Canada - Oct 30, 2008 Yorkminster Park Baptist, 1585 Yonge St. Neal Stephenson, legendary sci-fi writer, discusses his new novel Anathem and other "philosophical chestnuts" with ...

  USA - Oh, and thanks to Fluffernutter for the tip many years ago about Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, a sci-fi portrait of a privatized virtual future that looks ...

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 -...

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 ...

 United States - Though perhaps the greater boost came in 1992 with the sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson's cyberpunktilious novel Snow Crash, where he invented his own online ...

Arthur C. Clarke left big sci-fi shoes to fill  United States - Mar 25, 2008 a multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft, thank Neal Stephenson for inventing the Metaverse, his three-dimensional online world, in Snow Crash. ...

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 ...

The Cyberspace Game of Life  OK - Rosedale got his inspiration from Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash. The novel describes a future in which people spend much of their time in a ...

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 - Based on Neal Stephenson’s book ‘The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer,’ Clooney and business partner Grant Heslov will serve as executive ...

By jackwilliambell According to Sci Fi Wire, among other new shows in development for the Sci Fi channel is a six-hour miniseries based on 'The Diamond Age' by Neal Stephenson. Produced by, of all people, George Clooney: ...

 MI - Sci Fi's development slate includes a miniseries called "Diamond Age," based on a novel by Neal Stephenson about a futuristic society, executive-produced by ...

 - Based on the futuristic Metaverse from Neal Stephenson's seminal sci-fi novel Snow Crash, Second Life aims to truly be a second life for users, ...

By Lisa Whelan Weblo is a one of several emerging web-based social networking sites that revolves around a “Metaverse”. In his 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson coined the term “Metaverse” to refer to the virtual reality-based Internet ...

 UK - of Philip Rosedale, a 28-year-old internet entrepreneur who was inspired to create a virtual universe by Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash. ...

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