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Obama Announcing Creation of Military CyberCommands Today

29 May 2009 00:02:33 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Daily Kos .

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Circuit Strike.One Invading iPhone

22 May 2009 12:27:54 PDT

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. ...

Original story at IGN .

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Book news: New fiction, fiction in competition and a fat cat wins

21 May 2009 14:13:59 PDT

CA In the "best novel" category, adult fiction, young adult fiction and children's fiction compete against one another: The contenders include Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book," Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother," "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, ...

Original story at latimesblogs.latimes.com .

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Reviewer remembers the good, the bad and the ugly in books

13 May 2009 04:26:05 PDT

AZ Book most likely to make your head hurt "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson is near a whopping 1000 pages and weaves a wild story of invented words and in-depth characters in a futuristic world where the most intelligent people are in communes closely watched ...

Original story at Arizona Daily Wildcat .

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Locus Award Finalists Announced

29 Apr 2009 04:17:48 PDT

Written by Chip
The finalists for the Locus Awards (the best science fiction books and stories of the year, chosen by the general public) have been announced over at their site. Best science fiction novel entries are: Matter, Iain M. Banks City at the End of Time, Greg Bear Marsbound, Joe Haldeman Anathem,...

Original story at other-worlds-cafe.com .

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The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review

07 Apr 2009 21:58:26 PDT

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, ...

Original story at ZDNet .

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Neal Stephenson news and blogs - November 04, 2009

04 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Neal Stephenson news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Comment mentir à propos d'un livre de SF et de Fantasy -- from Actusf
• Pop culture pet peeve: Lacey Smithsonian and other absurd ... -- from Entertainment Weekly
• [분수대] 온라인 유품 -- from 중앙데일리
• Bushmanin arvoitus ratkaistu. -- from Tiede
• LIBRARY EVENTS -- from Weekly Vista
• Geek’s Bookshelf – Snow Crash -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Neal Stephenson" OR "Snow Crash" "The Diamond Age" OR Cryptonomicon OR "The Baroque Cycle" OR Metaverse OR "The System of the World" OR Cyberpunk OR "The Big U" OR "The Great Simoleon Caper" OR "The Confusion" OR novel OR Protagonist OR Turing OR Quicksilver OR "Global Neighborhood Watch" OR Hiro OR Anathem OR "The Cobweb" OR "Smiley's people" OR postcyberpunk OR Waterhouse OR Y.T. OR Spew OR Crash's OR "Hugo Award for Best Novel" OR Primer OR Hackworth OR Baroque OR Raft OR novels OR Shaftoe OR Nell OR fiction
• Boom!'s Ross Richie on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- from Newsarama
• LIBRARY EVENTS -- from Weekly Vista
• Neal Stephenson's Anathem -- from ScienceBlogs
• 2009 Reading #30: The Translator -- from Mumble Herder

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2009 Resolutions

17 Jan 2009 12:26:54 PST

I'm going to reread a lot of books this year. I just finished rereading The Illuminatus! Trilogy for the first time in years, and now I'm going to go back through Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I might also hit Infinite Jest and Don Quixote. These are books I enjoyed a lot, but read long enough...

Original story at Montykins .

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Review: 'Anathem,' by Neal Stephenson

26 Dec 2008 09:10:17 PST

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 ...

Original story at Boulder Daily Camera .

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made | Mania.com

22 Nov 2008 00:32:57 PST

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 ...

Original story at Comics2Film .

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Opinion: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

27 Oct 2008 22:22:07 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Recent books tagged "cyberpunk" on LibraryThing .

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Interview: Neal Stephenson, Anathem - B&N Review

14 Oct 2008 06:14:46 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Barnes & Noble Review—Interviews .

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"The only thing keeping these banks honest is the other banks"

13 Oct 2008 12:12:20 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at So Quoted .

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Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

03 Oct 2008 16:03:00 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Telegraph.co.uk .

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Book Review: Daemon - by Leinad Zeraus

21 Sep 2008 22:30:00 PDT

Written 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. ...

Original story at Dustin Kirkland .

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Review: 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson

14 Sep 2008 02:01:28 PDT

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

Original story at Chicago Sun-Times .

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Anathem Review

12 Sep 2008 09:25:16 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Discover Magazine .

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Book Review | Anathem Futuristic tale blends humor, suspense

09 Sep 2008 17:22:15 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Columbus Dispatch .

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Best Neal Stephenson Characters - Anathem Review - Popular Mechanics

08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Popular Mechanics .

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ArmadilloCon 2008: What You Should Have Read

31 Aug 2008 22:21:37 PDT

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.

Original story at unless-spring (Livejournal) .

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20 days and counting

20 Aug 2008 21:05:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at So Quoted .

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Opinion: Spooky, wonderful music CD in Neal Stephenson’s new novel

26 Jun 2008 07:28:40 PDT

Written 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. ...

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REVIEW: 'Interface' By Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George - Journal Gazette and Times-Courier

12 May 2008 21:09:35 PDT

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, ...

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Opinion: Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson [added by ...

24 Jan 2008 20:31:22 PST

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 ...

Original story at Recent books tagged "cyberpunk" on LibraryThing .

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"Thermopylae is a wedge issue!"

23 Mar 2007 08:23:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Hit and Run .

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Book Publishers Exploring Second Life

27 Oct 2006 19:02:17 PDT

Written 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 ...

Original story at B.L. Ochman's weblog - Internet and corporate blogging strategy, and online marketing trends, with news and commentary .

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