1. :: Neal Stephenson :: Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Cryptonomicon. Quicksilver is the eagerly awaited, intensely anticipated first installment in New York Times http://www.nealstephenson.com/

2. Neal Stephenson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Provides biographical, stylistic and bibliographical information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Neal Stephenson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Neal Stephenson Stephenson at a book signing Pseudonym Stephen Bury Born October 31 Fort Meade Maryland Occupation novelist, short story writer, essayist Nationality United States Genres Science fiction ... Postcyberpunk Influences Bruce Sterling William Gibson Influenced Charles Stross Website nealstephenson.com Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31 ) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society mathematics currency , and the history of science . He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine , and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin , a company (funded by Jeff Bezos ) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. Contents Background Literary works Style Bibliography ... edit Background Born in Fort Meade Maryland , Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a

3. Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson. author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon,. The Baroque Cycle, etc. drawing by Etgar Keret http://web.mac.com/nealstephenson/

4. The SF Site: A Conversation With Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson s recent novel, Cryptonomicon, is making an impressive showing on numerous bestseller lists. It follows a line of successes. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/ns67.htm

A Conversation With Neal Stephenson An interview with Catherine Asaro September 1999 Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson's recent novel, Cryptonomicon, is making an impressive showing on numerous bestseller lists. It follows a line of successes. His first novel, The Big U, came out in 1984, followed by Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller, (1988), his acclaimed bestseller, Snow Crash (1992), and his 1995 classic, The Diamond Age, which won the Hugo Award. Under the pseudonym Stephen Bury, he and his uncle, George Jewsbury, have published two thrillers: Interface (1994) and The Cobweb (1996). Neal also writes nonfiction for publications such as Wired and is one of the only authors ever to write fiction for Time magazine. Cryptonomicon Website ISFDB Bibliography SF Site Review: ... Neal Stephenson Interview Avon Books launched the Cryptonomicon.com website in April, including a 37,000 word essay by Stephenson titled, "In the Beginning was the Command Line," a savvy look at the arcane universe of computer operating systems written with Neal's flair for dry humour. The demand for the essay was so big that within a few days it crashed the server for the site. Readers can soon buy a trade paperback version of "In the Beginning was the Command Line," when it goes on sale November 9, 1999. I interviewed Neal over dinner in a Baltimore restaurant, one stop on his popular book tour for

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6. Neal Stephenson - Wikiquote Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Neal Stephenson From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. Contents Sourced The Big U (1984) Zodiac (1988) Snow Crash (1992) ... edit Sourced The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different A Conversation With Neal Stephenson For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane. Wired 2.02: In the Kindom of Mao Bell edit The Big U Now, at the little southern black college where I went to school, we had no megadorms. We were cool at the right times and academic at the right times .... Boston University, where I did my Master's ... most students had no time for sonic war, and the rest vented their humors in the city, not in the dorms. Ohio State was nicely spread out, and I lived in an apartment complex where noisy shit-for-brains undergrads were even less welcome than tweedy black bachelors. Dr. Bud Redfield (Stephenson's only first-person narrator); "The Go Big Red Fan" (prologue)

7. Neal Stephenson - Wikipedia Translate this page Neal Stephenson (* 31. Oktober 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, USA) ist ein in Seattle lebender Science-Fiction-Autor. Er wurde als Science-Fiction-Autor http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Neal Stephenson aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson 31. Oktober in Fort Meade Maryland USA ) ist ein in Seattle lebender Science-Fiction -Autor. Er wurde als Science-Fiction -Autor bekannt, dessen Experimente mit neuen Medien wie virtueller Realit¤t und dem World Wide Web sich in seinen Werken widerspiegeln. Er gilt deshalb als einer der Hauptvertreter des Cyberpunk . Auf sein Werk Snow Crash geht der Begriff Avatar , in der Bedeutung f¼r animierte Profile, zur¼ck. Inhaltsverzeichnis Werke Bibliografie Romane Kurzgeschichten ... Bearbeiten Werke Oft mischen sich in seinen B¼chern historische Elemente mit futuristischen Technikfantasien, so portr¤tiert er beispielsweise in The Diamond Age eine Gesellschaft, die sich hochentwickelter Nanotechnologie bedient, aber gesellschaftlich einem viktorianisch puritanischen Rollenmodell huldigt. Seit Ende der Jahre widmet sich Stephenson historischen Stoffen, jedoch mit der Sensibilit¤t eines Science-Fiction -Autors. Wie viele Autoren h¤lt Stephenson wenig von strengen Genre-Abgrenzungen. Vordergr¼ndig sind Cryptonomicon und der Barock-Zyklus dem Genre des historischen Romans zuzuordnen, beide Werke sind jedoch ges¤ttigt mit typischen SF-Motiven.

8. Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson elsewhere on the Web. A Review of The Diamond Age from New York Newsday, by Caleb Crane http//www.cc.columbia.edu/~wcc6/diamond.html http://www.filmdiva.com/mrd/diamondage/stephen.htm

eal Stephenson is 35 years old and lives in Seattle, Washington. He has written three other books, The Big U Zodiac , and Snow Crash . Bruce Sterling has said that he "is the first second-generation, native cyberpunk science-fiction writer. Unlike most of the original '80s cyberpunks, he grew up in the new technoculture and, with a hacker's background knows how it really works." Some of his major influences include Heinlein and Andre Norton. Neal Stephenson elsewhere on the Web: A Review of The Diamond Age from New York Newsday , by Caleb Crane http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~wcc6/diamond.html A chat Stephenson had on HotWired, since he appeared in their 'Scenarios' issue. http://www.hotwired.com/club/special/transcripts/stephenson.html A short story, "The Great Si-Mo-Le-On Caper", written for Time http://web.gmu.edu/bcox/Outlaws/SimoleonCaper.html Another short story, "Spew", written for Wired http://www.hotwired.com/wired/2.10/features/spew.html An interview in "Addicted To Noise", an online music 'zine http://www.addict.com/ATN/issues/1.07/Features/Neal_Stephenson/

9. Internet Book List :: Author Information: Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson issueth from a Clan of yeomen, itinerant Parsons, ingenieurs, and Natural Philosophers that hath long dwelt in bucolick marches and rural http://www.iblist.com/author.php?id=360

10. Review: Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson s Snow Crash is a flawed yet quite entertaining cyberpunk novel that has viruses on the brain (pardon the pun). A mysterious new computer http://www.steelypips.org/reviews/snowcrash.html

Review: Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is a flawed yet quite entertaining cyberpunk novel that has viruses on the brain (pardon the pun). A mysterious new computer virus, Snow Crash, seems to be able to infect a hacker's brain, and a drug of the same name is gaining popularity. From there, it's just a short step to the End of the World As We Know It, unless a freelance (read: unemployed) hacker, a skateboarding delivery girl, the Mafia, and a few others can stop Snow Crash's spread. Snow Crash is undeniably clever, often quite amusingly so. It is also very impressed with its own cleverness (why else name a main character Hiro Protagonist?), sometimes too much so for my taste. The pacing of the book is problematic, as well: a terrific opening, filled with energy and wit, slides into a middle section consisting mostly of characters explaining Sumerian language and myth to each other for pages on end. The book ends by apparently running headlong into a brick wall, simply stopping in its tracks. Nevertheless, Snow Crash is on balance a fun, fairly light though long read.

11. Neal Stephenson - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Neal Stephenson (31 de octubre de 1959, Fort Meade, Maryland) es principalmente un escritor de ciencia ficción que, sobre todo, escribe acerca de http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson

Neal Stephenson De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Neal Stephenson, en una firma de libros Neal Stephenson 31 de octubre de Fort Meade Maryland ) es principalmente un escritor de ciencia ficci³n que, sobre todo, escribe acerca de ordenadores y tecnolog­as relacionadas con ©stos, como la nanotecnolog­a , aunque no pertenece a la escuela de escritores cyberpunk , como William Gibson y Bruce Sterling . En ocasiones utiliza el seud³nimo Stephen Bury y tambi©n escribe art­culos sobre tecnolog­a en publicaciones peri³dicas como la revista Wired Aunque tiene alguna novela anterior, como La gran U ) y Zodiac: el «thriller» ecol³gico ), la fama le lleg³ a principios de los a±os 1990 con la novela Snow Crash ), donde mezcla memes virus inform¡ticos y otros motivos de alta tecnolog­a con la mitolog­a sumeria con un estilo que, de forma divertida, remeda al cyberpunk puesto de moda pocos a±os antes con la publicaci³n de Neuromante La lista de sus novelas posteriores incluye t­tulos como: Interfaz La era del diamante: Manual ilustrado para jovencitas ), que trata de un futuro en el que la

12. Neal Stephenson@Everything2.com Neal Stephenson represents a new breed of science fiction authors. Although the term cyberpunk is vaunted in literary circles as either the only interesting http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Neal Stephenson

13. Reason Magazine - Neal Stephenson's Past,Present, And Future If you met the novelist neal stephenson a decade ago, you would have encountered a slight, unassuming gradstudent type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no http://www.reason.com/news/show/36481.html

@import "/media/css/tf.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ @import "/media/css/reason.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ Reason Magazine Contact Subscribe Site Search Home Subscribe Contact Us Reason Staff ... Submissions Site comments/questions: Mike Alissi Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions: Chris Mitchell 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90034 ADVERTISEMENTS Neal Stephenson's Past,Present, and Future The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America. Mike Godwin Print Edition If you met the novelist Neal Stephenson a decade ago, you would have encountered a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction (1992's Snow Crash , in which computer viruses start invading hacker minds). It wasn't his debuthe'd published two earlier novels in the 1980sbut the book was such a hit that it put his name on the science fiction map in a way the earlier efforts had not. Meet Stephenson today, and you'll meet a well-muscled, shaven-headed, bearded fellow who's just published a highly acclaimed, massively popular trilogy of 900-page novels set mostly in the 17th century. Talk to him, though, and you still hear the rigorously humble guy of 10 years ago. Read that trilogy

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15. Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon , by neal stephenson, a Mass Market PB from Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060512804/Cryptonomicon/index.aspx

Member Sign In Register Books Authors Readers Members Search: Popular Searches submissions submission contests submission guidelines erin hunter mary-kate ashley olsen warriors access press ecco johanna lindsey Browse Bestsellers New Releases Upcoming Books ... Award Winners initNav(0); Categories Audio Avon Romance Business Children's Books Cooking E-books Fiction Health and Fitness History Lifestyles Mystery Parenting Poetry SF and F/Eos Self Improvement Spirituality Teen Readers Book Description E-mail this page Print this page Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson Price: On Sale: Formats: Mass Market PB E-Book Trade PB With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.

16. Wired 11.09: Neal Stephenson Rewrites History neal stephenson has always been fascinated by history. Cryptonomicon explored the science of secrets during World War II, and The Diamond Age riffed on http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/history.html

Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Print email , or fax this article for free. Neal Stephenson Rewrites History For the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future. By Robert Levine Joe Toreno Neal Stephenson has always been fascinated by history. Cryptonomicon explored the science of secrets during World War II, and The Diamond Age riffed on Victorian sensibilities. Now he's looking backward even further. He spent the last seven years immersed in the 17th century, working on a three-book series set during the scientific revolution. Certainly, The Baroque Cycle has scope: The ancestors of Cryptonomicon characters cross paths with Isaac Newton and his peers against a backdrop of several continents, a couple of wars, and one fundamental change in the way humans view the world. In the context of the 1600s, Stephenson examines the nature of money, the interdependency of Europe, and the consequences of transformative scientific advances. The writing schedule is ambitious, too: The first book, Quicksilver , is out this month, and the next two will follow at six-month intervals. Stephenson took the time to tell

17. The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson - Salon.com Apr 21, 2004 Rumor had it that neal stephenson would follow Cryptonomicon, his bestselling 1999 novel combining presentday high-tech entrepreneurs and http://dir.salon.com/story/books/int/2004/04/21/stephenson/index.html

Search: Salon The Web Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 Books Comics Community Life ... Log in The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson The author of "Cryptonomicon" and the "Baroque Cycle" talks about the brighter side of Puritanism, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and the literary world's grudge against science fiction. By Laura Miller Pages 1 Share Digg it Del.icio.us My Yahoo ... RSS Font: S S+ S++ Robert Hooke, and also the time when our modern economic systems began to take form. Stephenson found time for an interview during the course of a road trip, in a borrowed 40-foot R.V., across the high desert of Washington state from Spokane to his home in Seattle. It was a long conversation. What inspired the "Baroque Cycle"? It was an unexpected byproduct of "Cryptonomicon." One of the things I wanted to talk about in that book was the history of computing and its relationship to society. I was talking to Stephen Horst, a philosophy professor at Wesleyan, and he mentioned that Newton for the last 30 years of his life did very little in the way of science as we normally think of it. His job was to run the Royal Mint at the Tower of London. I'd been thinking a lot about gold and money, which were themes in "Cryptonomicon." At the same time, I read a book by George Dyson called "Darwin Among the Machines," in which he talks about the deep history of computing and about Leibniz and the work he did on computers. It wasn't just some silly adding machine or slide rule. Leibniz actually thought about symbolic logic and why it was powerful and how it could be put to use. He went from that to building a machine that could carry out logical operations on bits. He knew about binary arithmetic. I found that quite startling. Up till then I hadn't been that well informed about the history of logic and computing. I hadn't been aware that anyone was thinking about those things so far in the past. I thought it all started with [Alan] Turing. So, I had computers in the 17th century. There's this story of money and gold in the same era, and to top it all off Newton and Leibniz had this bitter rivalry. I decided right away that I was going to have to write a book about that.

18. Slashdot | Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit And Humor neal stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor article related to Interviews, SciFi, Books, and Technology. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1518217

19. C R Y P T O N O M I C O N Essay on operating systems written by neal stephenson. Download in Mac stuffit or PC Zip format. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

NOW AVAILABLE IN TRADE PAPERBACK WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD! In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems . This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized."

20. Salon Books | Deep Code Deep code neal stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of opensource software. http://archive.salon.com/books/int/1999/05/19/stephenson/

Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Books Ivory Tower I think therefore I tickle In his new book, "The Ticklish Subject," renegade philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers a mind-searing, polyvalent glimpse into the heart of modern freedom. By Jose Klein Interview Barefoot on the shag By Pamela Grossman Reviews "Human Voices" A superb English novelist re-creates life during wartime at the BBC. By Sylvia Brownrigg Book Bag In the shadow of the screen Pauline Kael picks five favorite novels that have something to do with the movies. By Pauline Kael Ivory Tower The story of no He vowed never to mix pleasure with teaching, but her indifference proved irresistible. By August Jacobs Complete archives for Books deep code Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software. By Andrew Leonard May 19, 1999 T o make a sweeping, possibly unfair generalization about an entire swath of humanity, computer geeks come in at least two distinct subspecies. One is familiar from popular culture the unkempt, hairy, paunchy recluse lacking in social graces. An ugly stereotype, to be sure, but these people do exist. Less well-known is the second kind of geek, the kind of guy Julius Caesar feared the lean and hungry geek. These geeks come in compact packages, thin and wiry. They sport close-shaved goatees rather than long hair and rabbinical beards. They regard the world with blazingly intense eyes, taking in everything, evaluating it, wondering how to fix it. These are the visionaries, the geeks who don't like to waste their time doing unimportant, boring stuff. Their impatience is reflected physically: Their bodies shiver with a nervous, tightly contained energy, just waiting to explode into the "flow" of all-night coding sessions, or, in the case of Neal Stephenson, 900-page novels.

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