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Neal Stephenson
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(Redirected from Neal Stevenson)
See also: Science | Cyberpunk | William Gibson | Bruce Sterling
Author's Home Page: http://www.well.com/user/neal/
Popular science fiction writer with published novels about the Internet and credited with coining many terms now actively used on the Net. Stephenson was a Techno/Cyber fiction author with an ethical and philosophical bent.
Stephenson's writing style is quirky and clever (the main character of Snow Crash is named "Hiro Protagonist"). His metaphors are unrelenting:
- "Y.T. Where are you?"
- "In the parking lot of a Safeway in Oahu," he says. And he's telling the truth; in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations. - From Snow Crash, page 79
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Books
- The Cryptonomicon (and http://www.cryptonomicon.com)
- Snow Crash
- Zodiac - The Eco Thriller
- The Diamond Age
- Quicksilver
- In The Beginning Was The Command Line - updated version by Garrett Birkel.
(Above links also include Amazon review and synopsis.)
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News/Links
- Wikipedia - Neal Stephenson
- Wired - Neal-related archive
- Slashdot - Interview with the man himself and the resulting thread.
- Slashdot - Instance of The Diamond Age colliding with real life.
