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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American author and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.
His novels have been variously categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and "postcyberpunk." Other labels, such as "baroque," often appear.
Stephenson explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired.
He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George" , under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists; his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his father's father was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977.
Stephenson studied at Boston University, first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.
Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots. His next novel, Zodiac (1988), was a thriller following the exploits of a radical environmentalist protagonist in his struggle against corporate polluters. Neither novel attracted much critical attention on first publication, but showcased concerns that Stephenson would further develop in his later work. The Big U went out of print until 2001, when Stephenson allowed it to be republished after realizing that this book that he considered inferior to his others was being sold at inflated prices for used copies because of its scarcity and collectors' value.
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism. Snow Crash can be considered to be the first expression of Stephenson's mature style. Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as "a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction." In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name "Stephen Bury"; they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which introduced many of today's real world technological discoveries. Seen back then as futuristic, Stephenson's novel has broad range universal self-learning nanotechnology, dynabooks, extensive modern technologies, robotics, cybernetics and cyber cities. Weapons implanted in characters' skulls, near limitless replicators for everything from mattresses to foods, smartpaper, air and blood sanitizing nanobots, set in a grim future world of limited resources populated by hard edged survivalists, an amalgamation hero is accidentally conceptualized by a few powerful and wealthy creatives, programmers and hackers.
This was followed by Cryptonomicon in 1999, a novel concerned with concepts ranging from computing and Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. It has subsequently been reissued in three separate volumes in some countries, including in French and Spanish translations. In 2013, Cryptonomicon won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
The Baroque Cycle, Stephenson's next novel, is a series of long historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is in some respects a prequel to Cryptonomicon. It was originally published in three volumes of two or three books each – Quicksilver (2003), The Confusion (2004) and The System of the World (2004) – but was subsequently republished as eight separate books: Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque, Bonanza, Juncto, Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World. (The titles and exact breakdown varies in different markets.) The System of the World won the Prometheus Award in 2005.
Following this, Stephenson published a novel titled Anathem (2008), a very long and detailed work, perhaps best described as speculative fiction. It is set in an Earthlike world (perhaps in an alternative reality), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.
In May 2010, the Subutai Corporation, of which Stephenson was named chairman, announced the production of an experimental multimedia fiction project called The Mongoliad, which centered around a narrative written by Stephenson and other speculative fiction authors.
REAMDE, a novel, was released on September 20, 2011. The title is a play on the common filename README. This thriller, set in the present, centers around a group of MMORPG developers caught in the middle of Chinese cyber-criminals, Islamic terrorists, and Russian mafia.
On August 7, 2012, Stephenson released a collection of essays and other previously published fiction entitled Some Remarks : Essays and Other Writing. This collection also includes a new essay and a short story created specifically for this volume.
Stephenson recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for CLANG, a realistic swordfighting fantasy game. The game uses motion control to provide an immersive experience. The game will contain a distinctive world and plotline. The campaign's funding goal of $500,000 was reached by the target date of July 9, 2012 on Kickstarter, but funding options remained open and were still taking contributions to the project on their official site. The project ran out of money in September 2013. This, and the circumstances around it, has angered some backers. There has even been talk, among the backers, of a potential class action lawsuit.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson |
The Baroque Cycle series
Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (read by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau)
Neal Stephenson - The King Of The Vagabonds (read by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau)
Neal Stephenson - Odalisque (read by Simon Prebble Kevin Pariseau and Katherine Kellgren)
Neal Stephenson - The Confusion (read by Simon Prebble Kevin Pariseau and Katherine Kellgren)
Neal Stephenson - Solomon's Gold (read by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau)
Neal Stephenson - Currency (read by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau)
Neal Stephenson - The System Of The World (read by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau)
Other
Neal Stephenson - The Mongoliad (read by Luke Daniels)
Neal Stephenson - Zodiac (read by Ax Norman)
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (read by Jonathan Davis)
Neal Stephenson - Interface (read by Oliver Wyman)
Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age (read by Jennifer Wiltsie)
Neal Stephenson - The Cobweb (read by Marc Vietor)
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon (read by Richard Hauenstein)
Neal Stephenson - Anathem (read by Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris and Neal Stephenson)
Neal Stephenson - Reamde (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
Neal Stephenson - Seveneves (read by Mary Robinette Kowal and Will Damron)
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The Baroque Cycle series
http://rapidgator.net/file/78a096fab6f72c6c6aa35f13e57f1989/Quicksilver.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/06ebddb72ad305d2e75c24c4814b1356/The_King_Of_The_Vagabonds.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8fff803d76cdc56e29da2985bcee0b17/Odalisque.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e7ca26bdca52cc4628b4ffe3bdef311f/The_Confusion.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd3a4236e3b8015ca0cd41ad80bdea2e/Solomons_Gold.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/593933b245fd72c582e047d192e95cd9/Currency.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/744644b7bded705a3c592283e077526a/The_System_Of_The_World.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/2bca1094726041592e21e7f971371327/The_Mongoliad.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5fa01b3d878fec5267123aaa95c5094a/Zodiac.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/49d04a07ab5dfbe44f096944935fd78a/Snow_Crash.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/18700ecac21191955840169a62f909e8/Interface.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d33cf0215491d534e6bdd2f21a370576/Interface.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f976e0f2ae763b6040ac454e38920b04/The_Diamond_Age.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/82726ff488edab0f298e0a17d3ced9bb/The_Cobweb.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c8b2fe86ce83b087e1eead037cf66b65/Cryptonomicon.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ef09241aed05f0df9a3d2354c4fa702d/Cryptonomicon.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1f9621106d50905a5331306ec78fc5e5/Anathem.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/67d032f86e0ef8fd1a9c86c3a27b0fcc/Anathem.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/97e8aff8738887bab6d75774c8d148ca/Reamde.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a0379526f7b3f17f8923b1c286f19201/Reamde.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/029812886aadad5dcc771513afe72f02/Seveneves.rar.html |
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