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Author photo. U.S. novelist Neal Stephenson at Science Foo Camp 2008. Author Bob Lee; cropped by Beyond My Ken

U.S. novelist Neal Stephenson at Science Foo Camp 2008. Author Bob Lee; cropped by Beyond My Ken

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Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author, was born on October 31, 1959 in Maryland. He graduated from Boston University in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography with a minor in physics. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984. It received little attention and stayed out of print until Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted in 2001. His second novel was Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller was published in 1988, but it was his novel Snow Crash (1992) that brought him popularity. It fused memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology. Neal Stephenson has won several awards: Hugo for Best Novel for The Diamond Age (1996), the Arthur C. Clarke for Best Novel for Quicksilver (2004), and the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for The System of the World (2005). He recently completed the The Baroque Cycle Trilogy, a series of historical novels. It consists of eight books and was originally published in three volumes and Reamde. His latest novel is entitled The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O. Stephenson also writes under the pseudonym Stephen Bury. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Snow Crash… (more)
Snow Crash 19,191 copies, 371 reviews
Cryptonomicon 16,408 copies, 282 reviews
The Diamond Age 10,747 copies, 197 reviews
Quicksilver 8,721 copies, 157 reviews
Anathem 7,891 copies, 278 reviews
The Confusion 6,272 copies, 77 reviews
The System of the World 5,680 copies, 70 reviews
Seveneves 4,364 copies, 230 reviews
Reamde 4,003 copies, 224 reviews
Zodiac 3,979 copies, 47 reviews
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. 1,784 copies, 97 reviews
Interface 1,762 copies, 38 reviews
Quicksilver 1,599 copies, 33 reviews
The Big U 1,568 copies, 31 reviews
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Author) 1,255 copies, 58 reviews
The Cobweb 1,071 copies, 21 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book One 822 copies, 34 reviews
Termination Shock 650 copies, 30 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book Two 378 copies, 13 reviews
King of the Vagabonds 344 copies, 17 reviews
The Mongoliad: Book Three 325 copies, 11 reviews
Odalisque 300 copies, 12 reviews
Cryptonomicon, Part 1 (of 3) 244 copies, 4 reviews
Cryptonomicon, Part 2 (of 3) 183 copies, 3 reviews
Cryptonomicon, Part 3 (of 3) 176 copies, 3 reviews
Atmosphæra Incognita 105 copies, 7 reviews
Anathem {Part 1 of 2} 36 copies, 1 review
Spew {story} 6 copies
2006 5 copies
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Introduction, some editions) 1,450 copies, 30 reviews
Steampunk (Contributor) 804 copies, 24 reviews
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (Contributor) 224 copies, 8 reviews
Hackers (Contributor) 110 copies, 2 reviews
Disco 2000 (Contributor) 93 copies, 1 review
Full Spectrum 5 (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon (Contributor) 34 copies, 2 reviews
Arc 1.3: Afterparty Overdrive (Contributor) 8 copies

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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.

Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.

Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system,[1] and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He is currently Magic Leap's Chief Futurist.
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