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Neal Stephenson
'Inventive' THE TIMES
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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together…
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The Metaverse is cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse’s main drag - is Snow…
Amazingly, they succeed - leaving some very unhappy men behind who vow to hunt down the vagabonds and bring them to justice, no matter the cost. Meanwhile, back in France…
Since childhood, Erasmus has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable secular world, until the…
The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction.
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A visionary new science fiction technothriller about climate change from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem. Reamde, and Cryptonomicon.
From one of the greatest speculative writers of our time comes an epic saga of life and death, power and technology, and a future that isn’t as far away as…
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicor comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture. (Stephenson) is the hacker Hemingway. –…
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Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, this first installment of Stephenson’s multi-volume epic is available in mass market. The Baroque Cycle brings to life…
Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg
With the excessive hype and fear mongering around AI and the Metaverse, there is a real need for objective analysis to create clarity. Our Next Reality debates the risks and…
The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change
As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England’s Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction…
Including a cast of characters such as Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, this book shows the ability to get inside a place and…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging…
In the not-too-distant future, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In this…
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The future is nano … And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law…
Gathered together for the first time, a breathtaking collection of nonfiction essays from the acclaimed number-one New York Times -bestselling author of Reamde.
Neal Stephenson (Author)
Neal Stephenson’s staggering techno-thriller is now in paperback.
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Sangaman Taylor is Boston’s modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic ways is the perfect method of making enemies, and…
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Stephenson’s first novel is now back in print. With a plot that meanders through academic catch-22s; massive, sonic stereo wars; neon-worshiping cults; and a campus-wide civil war, this scathing send-up…
Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the second and third installments of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle epic–previously published in Quicksilver, Vol. 1 –are now available…
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The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities – as the beautiful and ambitious…
First arriving on the scene in 1992 to critical acclaim, this definitive novel of the information age weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between. Stephenson is…
New York Times bestselling author Stephenson pens the final volume in his ambitious and compelling epic of intrigue, adventure, and excitement, filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a…
In this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery…
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining…
Sangamon Taylor is spreading the word about corporations piping toxic wastes into the water from his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Now, he’s wanted by the FBI, the Mafia, and a group…
More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren–Randy and Amy–join forces to create a data…
This visionary author who has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson and Michael Crichton returns with a high-stakes thriller about a wealthy tech…
Five thousand years later after a catastropic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers–seven distinct races now three billion strong–embark…
The adult grandchildren of two men once involved in code-breaking espionage in World War II find a sunken Nazi submarine that reveals a massive conspiracy, the effects of which can…
Set in 21st century Shanghai, this is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. The device has…
Sarah Jonckheere
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. Using affect theory and its applications to literature, it explores how operations of subjectivation emerge…
Nicole Galland
In this … sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.–[a] history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, [and] magic and science co-written with … Neal Stephenson–a daring…
Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Quicksilver brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men…
Tomorrow Through the Past: Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated exclusively to this important voice in contemporary American fiction.
