Neal Stephenson
Autor de Snow crash
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: U.S. novelist Neal Stephenson at Science Foo Camp 2008. Author Bob Lee; cropped by Beyond My Ken
Series
Obras de Neal Stephenson
The Great Simoleon Caper {story} 19 copias
Global Neighborhood Watch 10 copias
Spew {story} 6 copias
2006 5 copias
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip {story} 5 copias
In the Kingdom of Mao Bell {essay} 4 copias
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out {essay} 3 copias
It's All Geek to Me {essay} 3 copias
Smiley's People {article} 2 copias
Stephenson Neal 2 copias
The Future of Ideas 1 copia
Snowcrash 1 copia
Cryptonomicon 1 copia
Two for the Road 1 copia
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Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Stephenson, Neal
- Nombre legal
- Stephenson, Neal Town
- Otros nombres
- Bury, Stephen (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Ames, Iowa, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Educación
- Boston University (BA | Geography | 1981)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer
essayist
Subutai Corporation (Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder) - Relaciones
- Jewsbury, George Frederick (samen onder pseud. Stephen Bury)
- Organizaciones
- The Clock of the Long Now Project
Subutai Corporation - Premios y honores
- Hugo Award (1996)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (2004)
Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award (1996)
Prometheus Award (2005)
Locus Award (1996, 2000, 2005, 2009) - Agente
- Liz Darhansoff
- Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
purchased the latest Neal Stephenson book yesterday en The Green Dragon (agosto 2019)
entry point for Neal Stephenson en Science Fiction Fans (junio 2013)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson - LinuxLefty tutoring UnrulySun and kgodey en 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (marzo 2012)
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- Idiomas
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- Favorito
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