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Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, is a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland, and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots. [6] [7] His next novel, Zodiac (1988), is a thriller following a radical environmentalist in his struggle against corporate polluters. [6]
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy. [2] In his 1999 essay "In the Beginning...
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson.It is to some extent a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is a 2019 speculative fiction novel by American author Neal Stephenson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book explores mind-uploading to the Cloud , from the perspective of Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, a character introduced in Stephenson's 2011 Reamde .
Jack Shaftoe (also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L'Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2,686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle. [1] [2] [3]
Prolific author Neal Stephenson’s digital content platform Lamina1 and “The Lord of the Rings” film franchise special effects company Wētā Workshop are set to collaborate on a ...
Stephenson addressed the subject during an interview on the Conversations with Tyler podcast in response to a Reason magazine article published earlier this year.
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