The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes …
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 …
Snow Crash é um livro de ficção científica escrito por Neal Stephenson no ano de 1992, inspirado em livros cyberpunk que o antecederam, como os de William Gibson, mas que criou um estilo diferenciado, baseado em uma narrativa de estrutura caótica e contendo referências a assuntos pouco explorados no gênero, como …