41. Neal Stephenson: Jipi And The Paranoid Chip By neal stephenson (excerpt as appeared in Forbes, July 7, 1997). THIS IS THE highestresolution video you can get, better than reality,” says Mr. Cardoza. http://www.vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html

Jipi and the paranoid chip By Neal Stephenson (excerpt as appeared in Forbes, July 7, 1997) Jipi does pretty well at the Manila Hotel job. One morning, most abruptly, she gets promoted to what Mr. Cardoza says, not without a certain ominous vibe, is a much more demanding position. “Wait. I don’t understand,” Jipi says. “I was imagining, like, a small explosive charge under the driver’ seat or something. Enough to kill or maim the driver." I have a bad feeling about my overall situation. Jipi takes a couple of deep breaths to compose herself, then puts her hands on the keyboard and types: Sometimes I feel that way too. Who is this? Your reputation is not excellent. I agree with this. My inputs are not to be trusted. Tell me about your inputs. You are a nonlocal input. It is not usual for me to receive inputs from nonlocal sources. Most of my inputs come from local sources. What do you mean by local sources? Devices that are physically wired to the hardware on which I am instantiated. What are you learning from those inputs at the moment?

42. Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. - By Paul Boutin - Slate Magazine neal stephenson s 1992 novel Snow Crash set the tone for the Internet decade. Its ironyenhanced lead character, Hiro Protagonist, alternated between http://www.slate.com/id/2088510/

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson posted 30 Jun 05 at 06:44 pm When I mentioned Neal Stephenson here in February, several people recommended starting with the smaller Snow Crash rather than plunging head-long into Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle. When I ran across a copy in my own household (who knew that we had one?), I picked it up and barely put it back down until I had finished. I mean come on! the main character's name is Hiro Protagonist, but Stephenson has the chops to back that sort of cheesy bullshit up: The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta. Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it talking trade balances here once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity...

44. Digital Medievalist: Scéla: Neal Stephenson And Beowulf neal stephenson, one of my favorite authors, was interviewed by Slashdot. stephenson is best known for his SF, especially for Snowcrash and The Diamond Age http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/news/2004/10/neal-stephenson-and-beowulf.html

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View Cart Home Wish List Account ... Sign in or create an account SHOP Software Special Offers Recently Reduced New Releases ... Bestsellers CATEGORIES View all Romance Contemporary Fiction Science Fiction ... View by author Browse by category... Romance Science Fiction Fantasy Under Five Dollars Best of 2005 New Year's Resolutions Special Offers Recently Reduced Staff Picks Action/Adventure Anthologies Biography/Memoir Careers Children's Books Classics Contemporary Fiction Entertainment Historical Fiction History Horror Humor Law Literature Magazines New Age Nonfiction Poetry Reference Religion Self-Help Star Trek Books Study Guides Teen Travel True Crime Western Sign Up Today! Exclusive eReader Club 10% Off eBooks Plus - Special offers and coupons delivered straight to your inbox! Your e-mail address: Excerpt from Snow Crash Home Snow Crash Excerpt Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Excerpt The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books. When they gave him the job, they gave him a gun. The Deliverator never deals in cash, but someone might come after him anyway might want his car, or his cargo. The gun is tiny, aero-styled, lightweight, the kind of a gun a fashion designer would carry; it fires teensy darts that fly at five times the velocity of an SR-71 spy plane, and when you get done using it, you have to plug it into the cigarette lighter, because it runs on electricity.

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50. Snow Crash, By Neal Stephenson I had read a number of bloggers mention neal stephenson, and faced with a number of long airport waits, I picked up one of his earlier novels, Snow Crash, http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/30/222104.php

BC Home Features Fresh Comments RSS ... Become a BC Writer Blogcritics is an online magazine, a community of writers and readers from around the globe. Publisher: Eric Olsen Snow Crash , by Neal Stephenson Written by Bruce Kratofil Published August 30, 2004 See also: Book Review: XML Demystified Book Review: XAML in a Nutshell ... by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill My limited fiction reading had stagnated, and I was looking for something different. I had read a number of bloggers mention Neal Stephenson, and faced with a number of long airport waits, I picked up one of his earlier novels, Snow Crash , written in 1992. once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickelonce the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperityy'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode(software), and high-speed pizza delivery. That's a very simplified description of the environment that the characters operate. In the opening chapter, Hiro meets YT, a skateboard-riding courier for RadiKS, the Radikal Kourier Systems. Beneath the kourier suit she's actually a teen-age girl with loads of attitude. They end up in a loose alliance with Uncle Enzo, and later Mr. Lee of Greater Hong Kong. They are opposed by Raven, who is an Aleutian hitman who is probably packing his own nuclear weapons; L. Bob Rife, a media mogul; and a televangelist named the Reverend Wayne Bedford.

51. Lunch With George! Neal Stephenson Discussion George first turned me on to neal stephenson when he lent me the book Cryptonomicon. What an amazing book! I never wanted to put it down, and I hoped it http://www.lunchwithgeorge.com/lwg_stephenson.html

"That's all I have to say about this place!" MAIN PAGE LUNCHES Lunch Index Food Reviews ... Referenced Sites Lunch With George! TOPICS > Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson George first turned me on to Neal Stephenson when he lent me the book Cryptonomicon . What an amazing book! I never wanted to put it down, and I hoped it would never end (it's long enough that my hopes seemed to be fulfilled for some time). The publisher also provides a web site for the book. Next I read Snow Crash , followed by The Diamond Age . More commentary on these books later. Neal also wrote a non-fiction essay about personal computer operating systems called In The Beginning Was The Command Line. You can read it in its entirety here. This essay convinced me that I should be running Linux and not the Mac OS, but Fred Glover and I have since convinced ourselves otherwise by completely failing to successfully install two different Linux distributions on a PowerMac 7200. In my mind, Linux installers are NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME. Maybe I'll try again on my new G4... George sent me links a while back to some short stories written by Stephenson: The Great Simoleon Caper , and Spew . Enjoy!

52. Scriptorium - Neal Stephenson This page contains links to sites on neal stephenson, and will one day contain a full Scriptorium page. http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/stephenson.html

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www.scifidimensions.com Latest News Commentary Letters to the Editor ... Atlanta SF Calendar Institutional Member of SFWA All original content is John C. Snider unless otherwise indicated. No duplication without express written permission. Register to win (by joining our email list) a signed copy of Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ! Two list members will win signed 1st editions; a 1st runner-up will win signed reprints of his previous books Cryptonomicon In the Beginning ; a 2nd runner-up will win a signed copy of Cryptonomicon . Contest ends Oct 31st. If you're already on our email list, you're already registered. Interview: Neal Stephenson by Therese Littleton for HarperCollins © 2003 Bestselling author Neal Stephenson's latest book, Quicksilver , follows the fortunes of an unforgettable cast of vagabonds and geniuses in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quicksilver is a funny, smart, and engaging historical novel, part of the larger story of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

55. Neal Stephenson Discussion For me, neal stephenson s techie characters, like Doug Coupland s, have real street cred . The background scenery (of Seattle and Silicon Valley) in http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/neal stephenson.html

gnod music books movies Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Released 2000 Cryptonomicon Released 2002 The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) Released 2000 Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) Released 2004 The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) Released 2004 The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) Released 2005 Interface Released 2005 Zodiac Released 2007 In the Beginning...was the Command Line Released 1999 The Cobweb Released 2005 Discussion: Neal Stephenson I just finished the Diamond Age. I would really like to read other authors like N. Stephanson. I have already read everything by W. Gibson, B. Sterling, P. K. Dick. Where do I go from here? There must be more. Help me. I am a mental health therapist specializing in juvenile delinquents and criminals. I need the distraction of this type of writing. I read Cryptonomicon not too long ago, and am currently reading Quicksilver. N. Stephanson has a very interesting style. pocus Cryptonomicon was an excellent read, full of detail and lots of plotlines converging on the end. Plenty to keep you occupied in thought as well. flamencoprof Yes, great book, Cryptomojonicommoaa. Big and fat, like the title, but a very quick read. I couldnt get enough of the relationship between Bobby Shaftoe and Root. Pretty brilliant stuff actually, some day Ill get around to his other stuff. But isn't his name spelled wrong here?

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57. Ode Magazine : Exchange : The Diamond Age, By Neal Stephenson It was fascinating, and reminded me of the book Diamond Age by Neil stephenson. I m seeing it come true. No telling how far this can go, but it should be http://www.odemagazine.com/exchange/1062/the_diamond_age_by_neal_stephenson

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web hosting domain names photo sharing R Cryptonomicon (v,x?,b), Snow Crash (v,x,b) Introduction Neal writes what-if novels. Normally this would be called Science-Fiction, but some of his novels are so based in the present world, technology, situation, that he doesn't completely fit into the genre. His other books have been described as post-cyberpunk, and have heavy leanings towards nanotech and cyberspace. A few works: Snowcrash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon. Stephenson has a hand on the pulse of geekdom, and has graced the cover of Wired. Cryptonomicon As is typical of all other Neal Stephenson books that I've digested, Cryptomicon takes place and is viewed through the eyes of multiple characters simultaneously. By this I mean that each chapter or subchapter represents a part of the story as viewed from the eyes of one of the protagonists. Story 2: Like all protagonists, he is exceptional in some way- in this case, he is a mathematical genius... a bit lacking in the social side of life, but not an idiot-savant. You see the world through his eyes for the first few chapters or so, until you've met Alan Turing and his bud Rudy, and discovered that they are gay. This doesn't really bother you, but you're not interested. By this point in time, the Japonese (the Nipponese) are about to destroy Pearl, and you're in the Navy. Since your answer to how long it would take a ship to move up a river involved proving a theory on laminer flow, the military, in its glorius intelligence, decide you were too dumb to do anything other than play in the band. You ARE in Pearl when its bombed. After the fireworks, you are somehow manoevered into a "class" on crypto. The teach writes up a code on the board, which you happily decode before anybody else gets a chance to get their bearings. Whoosh, you're now a cryptoanalyist.

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