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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1959
Place of Birth: Fort Meade
Nationality:
United States, -
Profession:
Author, Writer, Novelist (1 hidden)
Books:
The Cobweb, The Great Simoleon Caper (11 hidden)

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novel, series, Cycle, pages, Cobweb, story, cyberpunk, SF and account.

Neal Stephenson wrote novel

The Baroque Cycle The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by Neal Stephenson.

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Planners derived inspiration from cyberpunk novels written by Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, including Snow Crash.

The Cobweb (novel) The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George.

Neal Stephenson wrote series

The Baroque Cycle The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by Neal Stephenson.

Baroque (disambiguation) The Baroque Cycle, a series of historical novels written by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson wrote Cycle

The Baroque Cycle The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels written by Neal Stephenson.

Baroque (disambiguation) The Baroque Cycle, a series of historical novels written by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson wrote pages

Quicksilver (novel) The Metaweb was once an extensive Quicksilver wiki, including many pages written by Stephenson, about the historical and fictional persons and events of this book.

Neal Stephenson wrote Cobweb

The Cobweb (novel) The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George.

Neal Stephenson wrote story

Hackers (anthology) This story was written by Neal Stephenson, and was first published in Wired in 1994.

Neal Stephenson wrote cyberpunk

Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) The poem also contains a motif of "the mechanism," a common theme for Gibson, and indeed all of the cyberpunk writers (Bruce Sterling, Neal Stephenson, etc.).

Neal Stephenson wrote SF

Stephen Bury Stephen Bury is a pseudonym for SF writer Neal Stephenson and his uncle, J. Frederick George (itself a pseudonym for George Jewsbury).

Neal Stephenson wrote account

Operation Vengeance In the novel Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson wrote an account of the assassination events from Yamamoto's viewpoint.

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philosophy, history, currency, cryptography, areas, ideas and gui.

Neal Stephenson explored philosophy

Neal Stephenson Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

Neal Stephenson explored history

Neal Stephenson Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

Neal Stephenson explored currency

Neal Stephenson Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

Neal Stephenson explored cryptography

Neal Stephenson Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

Neal Stephenson explored areas

Neal Stephenson Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

Neal Stephenson explored ideas

The Diamond Age Stephenson explores the idea of the tech divide and its social and economic ramifications to the extreme using these violent, but not all together surprising, social revolutions.

Neal Stephenson explored gui

In the Beginning... was the Command Line Stephenson explores the GUI as a metaphor in terms of the increasing interposition of abstractions between humans and the actual workings of devices (in a similar manner to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) and explains the beauty hackers feel in good-quality tools.

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term, Nam-shub, state, buckyballs and techniques.

Neal Stephenson used term

Asaruludu In his novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson uses the term Nam-shub to indicate a self-replicating meme.

Wetware Neal Stephenson uses the term in his 1995 novel, The Diamond Age, to describe the society of the drummers where nano-particles are exchanged through bodily fluids among individuals within the society for the task of parallel computing.

Neal Stephenson used Nam-shub

Asaruludu In his novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson uses the term Nam-shub to indicate a self-replicating meme.

Neal Stephenson used state

Snow Crash Distributed republic - A state of government used by Neal Stephenson in this and other works.

Neal Stephenson used buckyballs

Fullerenes in popular culture Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson uses buckyballs as nanotechnological containers for things such as rod logic computers in his 1995 cyberpunk/postcyberpunk novel The Diamond Age.

Neal Stephenson used techniques

Postmodern literature The cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and many others use science fiction techniques to address this postmodern, hyperreal information bombardment.

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    Neal Stephenson

    Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk.
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    Snow Crash

    The Great Simoleon Caper - A short story by Neal Stephenson that appears to take place in the same universe at an earlier time.
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    Cryptonomicon

    Stephenson changed the name so as not to be creatively constrained by the technical details of Linux-based operating systems. ... Novels by Neal Stephenson
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    The Diamond Age

    The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.
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    The Baroque Cycle

    —Neal Stephenson ... ↑ Godwin, Mike; Neal Stephenson (February 2005).
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    Anathem

    To create the world of Arbre, Stephenson created an entirely new vocabulary. ... ↑ Anathem, By Neal Stephenson - The Long Now
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    Zodiac (novel)

    Novels by Neal Stephenson
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    Category:Wikipedians who read Neal Stephenson

    This is the category for Wikipedians who enjoy reading the works of Neal Stephenson.
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    Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson (b. 1959), U.S. author
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    In the Beginning... was the Command Line

    In the Beginning...was the Command Line is a lengthy essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931).

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