A Snow Crash egy 1992-ben megjelent science fiction regény Neal Stephenson tollából. A regény a cyberpunk irodalom egyik legfontosabb alkotása, mely már tartalmazza Stephenson későbbi műveinek az alapjait. Ezek közé sorolható a történelem, a nyelvészet, az antropológia, a régészet, a vallás, a számítástechnika, a …
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702—commanded …
A Gyémántkor egy 1995-ben megjelent poszt-cyberpunk regény Neal Stephenson tollából. A regény egy fejlődéstörténetet mesél el, és egy olyan jövőben játszódik, melyet teljesen átalakított a nanotechnológia. A könyv az oktatás, az etnikumok, a mesterséges intelligencia és a kasztrendszer témáját járja körül. A …
Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls …
It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the oars of a pirate ship. These ten men - unfortunates from around the world impressed into servitude - have heard whispers of an enormous cache of Spanish gold. Together, they hatch a daring scheme - escape their chains, seize a …
In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller is a novel by American writer Neal Stephenson. His second novel, it tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters in Boston Harbor. The "Zodiac" of the title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats the hero uses to get …
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form. The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free …