Neal Stephenson

By prenton-ebay791880 In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art ...

By bill(noreply@blogger.com) Another quote from the most excellent political satire/thriller/conspiracy novel, Interface (Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George). Other Interface mentions: America used to have citizens...now it has investors. Campaign advisors Zoom in! Zoom in! Zoom in and his career is over!"

A tidbit I didn't mention in Monday's story on Neal Stephenson: Pre-orders of his upcoming novel, "Anathem," have already put it among the top 50 best-selling books at Amazon.com. As of today, "Anathem" is 38th on the list. ...

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 - By Neal Stephenson In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the ...

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

By Scott Thill Like Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and further genre-bending authors, Neal Stephenson has his fingers in too many pies to count. He specializes in dense tomes that dig deep into science, math, religion and more, and not just because he ...

By dp Thursday 25 - Neal Stephenson - Anathem . Best-selling author Neal Stephenson is back at BookPeople with his latest book, Anathem. In a world where mathematicians are cloistered together to protect knowledge from the outside world, ...

By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Ben) I've finally done it.. Started in May, finished in August?!?! Why did it take so long? I've finished the Baroque Cycle. I must say I'm a little disheartened to be done. It was a great comfort to know after finishing a volume, another was waiting. Now that the third volume is finished I must wait for...

By Martin 64 Anathem by Neal Stephenson Read for review for Strange Horizons. #65 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon A much colder, darker, more seductive work than his sprawling Kaverlier & Clay. A very good novel and one which I ...

By Liam The Confusion (2004) by Neal Stephenson continues with Book 5 of The Baroque Cycle, “The Juncto.” This book is all Eliza, with a good share of Bob Shaftoe, plus helpings of Daniel Waterhouse and Leibniz, sprinkled with the monarchy and ...

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.

It's almost universally considered the finest example of Cyberpunk as well, which, when you consider that it was the first real Cyberpunk novel, tells you what you need to know about Cyberpunk (Snow Crash is often held up as another ...

By Imagine Atrium Neal Stephenson announces in his acknowledgments in the beginning of Anathem that his latest novel is "a fictional framework for exploring ideas that have sprung from the minds of great thinkers of Earth's past and present. ...

 - Aug 26, 2008 one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. ...

By Brett Love I've been counting down the days to the new Neal Stephenson novel, Anathem, since a release date was announced. That being said, I've never really been lured in by any of the television tie-in books. However, a guest article at the LA ...

  United States - The "Prep" author's new novel is rumored to be based on Laura Bush. — "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow). Science-fiction follow-up to the ...

By Plinydogg In reality, Hiro Protagonist lives in a storage unit and delivers pizza for the Mafia. But as one of the original coders of the Metaverse, he also spends a lot of time goggled into his computer. The Metaverse is a computer-based ...

By Xeni Jardin Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks -- Anathem. Some of us here at Boing Boing have been following this one with much obsession. Here's a sneak copy of an abridged glossary of neologisms and language-bending goodies from the b...

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previous blog posts: Stephen Bury]; Snow Crash: The novel that made him famous and probably his most popular novel to date, this book has a fine ending. Computer virus crisis averted and all is well. [full review]; The Diamond Age: And ...

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...

Neal Stephenson talks to Wired about his new novel, Anathem. Stephenson measures his novels not by word count but by visually assessing the printout. "You've got manuscripts that are relatively short, and then you've got manuscripts ...

It is a different breed than Snow Crash, but I want to talk about this book in its own right. Diamond Age is almost a children's story, with the main character being a child who grows into an adult by the end of the book. ...

By Paul Has a new book coming out. Wired had a pretty interesting article on him and the Long Now and long time and stuff. The book sounds pretty interesting. Maybe I’ll make it my first foray in Stephenson’s work. I have Snow Crash on my shelf, just haven’t picked it up yet and I keep going back to wanting ...

 - His breakthrough 1992 novel, Snow Crash , has served as a blueprint for real computer scientists attempting the creation of virtual worlds. ...

By SeattleTammy are segregated from the Saecular tides of humanity washing against the walls of their fortress-like monastaries. Neal Stephenson introduces our Mathic protagonist, Fraa Erasmas or Raz for short, who proceeds to take ...

 - Aug 12, 2008 EG: Well, the usual like Neuromancer and Snow Crash plus a lot of Arthur C. Clarke stories really got me into the whole exploration and technology scene. ...

By liza The big score of the conference was a pre-release copy of the new Neal Stephenson, Anathem:. Anathem. Spoiler-free summary: it’s good. I didn’t read the Baroque Cycle because I was waiting to find out if I’d like it, and I’m told I ...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff ChShanghai is the setting of the upcoming George Clooney TV series based on the retro cyberpunk novel, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, who will adapt the miniseries from his novel. Diamone Age breaks new ground in a series that ...

By Liam I’m continuing the Baroque Cycle with “Book 4: Bonanza” which is paired with “Book 5: Juncto” in The Confusion (2004) by Neal Stephenson. This shows how stubborn I am to read one book at a time since Bonanza is “confused” together with Juncto making for a lot of page flipping. Bonanza is all Ja...

How Neal Stephenson's Typewriter Kept Him Writing  CA - Aug 3, 2008 Author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and other geeky tomes Neal Stephenson described how he wrote his first book at a 2003 UNIX keynote speech. ...

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By Mike Brotherton The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson represents one of the very best attempts at imagining a world based on pervasive nanotechnology. Hyperion by Dan Simmons is a tour de force ...

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

 - And it's true-- there's probably a great Neal Stephenson "Baroque Cycle" type story to be written featuring Rutherford in place of Newton. ...

The irreverent polymath Neal Stephenson is the author of such popular science fiction novels as Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. He has a devoted following of readers attracted to his exciting cerebral explorations of science and society ...

By neonorganum Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash predicts MMOs as the “metaverse,” a structure like the internet but communicated through avatars, and modeled off of reality. MMOs can also be described as “proskenian,” from the Greek stages where the ...

Animals as 'soul mates'  Malaysia - Much like the neo-Victorian aristocrats in Neal Stephenson’s science-fiction novel The Diamond Age, the characters in The Golden Compass populate a world ...

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 ...

News & ObserverVirtual world requires new tools News & Observer, NC - The site contains a metaverse road map looking out over the next 20 years. Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel "Snow Crash" coined the term "metaverse" and ...

By Jonathan McCalmont For example, in the cases of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque cycle and James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder, modern language, ideas and characterisation were imported in order to make the characters and setting more sympathetic and engaging to ...

By Justin Peters In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, virtual-reality goggles offer passage into an intricate cyber world called the Metaverse. (It's sort of like Second Life, but without the American Apparel stores.) In the book, everyone loves these portable, intuitive, and bug-free goggles. I was...

My mega-review of Neal Stephenson#39;s giga-novel The Baroque Cycle will be in the forthcoming issue of New Atlantis, going to press this week, I th... . . .

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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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.

Related articles from Top Tech News, CIO Today, NewsFactor Network.

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.

Related articles from Top Tech News, Sci-Tech Today, NewsFactor Network.

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.

Related articles from Top Tech News, Sci-Tech Today, CIO Today.

The Coming Virtual Web BusinessWeek - 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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

By By info@associatedcontent.com (Dawn Lee) An analysis of the strange correlation between Stephenson's science fiction and the current mafia situation.