Seveneves offers at once stephensons most conventional sciencefiction scenario and a superb exploration of his abiding fascination with systems, philosophies and the limits of technology. Neal stephenson on getting big stuff done x, the moonshot factory. Neal town stephenson born october 31, 1959 is an american writer known for his works of speculative fiction. Innovation starvation some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking blackandwhite television, watching the early gemini missions. It is a work of great art, thought and creative daring. Neal stephenson is the author of the threevolume historical epic the baroque cycle quicksilver, the confusion, and the system of the world and the novels cryptonomicon, the diamond age, snow crash, and zodiac.
Since 1984, stephenson has lived mostly in the pacific northwest and currently resides in seattle with his family. Neal stephenson has 84 books on goodreads with 1523928 ratings. Hey, that sounds like the reaction to a neal stephenson novel. There is some science to what this book tells as we in the current time is living in the era where technology is part of the everyday life. The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional mmorpg, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. The remarkable neal stephenson interview damien walter. Seveneves en espanol by neal stephenson, paperback barnes. Shortly after dodges death a midwestern town called moab is destroyed in a. 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. I love a thriller, so seveneves was right up my alley. Neal stephensons fall explores higher consciousness, the internets future, and virtual.
He is no doubt a very fine writer and i would hate to have a newbie be influenced by what i hope is a vanity project that has emptied stephensons pentup rolodex of very nearfuture space tech, and that his next book is more accessible. And i would just turn around and walk away and start working on the next book. Is it necessary to read any of neal stephensons books first. The protagonist however is lightly revealing light over the truth, even then the book is set in a scifi universe. Neal stephenson is best known for his writing style which covers a fictional universe that ordinary people finds really odd. Seveneves by neal stephenson a truly epic disaster novel. Im sort of torn on whether to go through reamde or cryptonomicon next, but im open to other suggestions.
Neal stephenson is the author of the threevolume historical epic the baroque cycle quicksilver, the confusion and the system of the world as well as the novels cryptonomicon, the diamond age winner of a hugo award, snow crash, zodiac, anathem and reamde. Crypto is math, which is the least likely subject for a novel thats going to achieve any kind of mass popularity. But when stephenson turns his attention to shorter forms, the results can be every bit as impressive, as this. Stephenson is a techie, and hes writing for an audience of coders and hackers in command line. After a medical procedure goes awry, his family discovers that. Discover book depositorys huge selection of neal stephenson books online. Neal stephensons new novel part tech, part fantasy dazzles. Anathem relied pretty heavily on the extended but digestible infodumps ive come to appreciate from stephenson, so those dialogs were the highlights for me. Since then i have been a fan of stephenson because of what i call the neal stephenson reading experience. Stephenson made his literary debut in 1984 with the novel the big u. May, 2015 seveneves by neal stephenson a truly epic disaster novel. Unfortunately, although i quite enjoyed reading through this lengthy tome at the start, the last 20% of the book severely disappointed, which ended up spoiling most of the book for me. Neal stephenson explains silicon valleys latest obsession. This page is managed by his publisher, william morrow.
But neal stephenson also has his other styles of writing because he can also cater to those who are looking for a nonfiction books that they can read. May 31, 2015 stephenson does eventually get around to some of those ideas, especially in later sections of the book. Like many readers, ive enjoyed several of neal stephenson s books although i did struggle through some of the longer ones in places. The book was a first edition copy of his novel quicksilver. May 07, 2014 but, as sometimes happens with interviews, our discussion didnt quite match the focus the commissioning technology publication had been looking for. Cryptonomicon by neal stephenson, snow crash by neal stephenson, the diamond age.
Neal stephenson is the new york times bestselling author of reamde, anathem, cryptonomicon, and other novels. Neal stephenson audio books, best sellers, author bio. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past the baroque cycle to the modern era reamde to the remote future anathem, seveneves. 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.
May 21, 2015 i went in to this book knowing very little about it, and i had no clue as to the meaning of the title. After a great start, the book bogs down into gibberish that is neither sf see p. Since ive advocated for the use of treadmill desks in some remarks and evangelized it to people i know, i thought it behooved me to publish some data and some reflections on it, born of experience. Reamde is a technothriller novel by neal stephenson, published in 2011. Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by neal stephenson published in 2015. Since ive advocated for the use of treadmill desks in some remarks and. Each week, our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your attention and highlight them in our pro connect email alert. But for the first 600 pages or so, what he mainly seems interested in are the most literal.
Pages, after ppage, good stuff, until i started to notice how politicallysorrect all the. Neal stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels reamde, anathem, the. Seveneves was included on president obamas summer 2016 reading list. Neal stephensons new novel part tech, part fantasy. In his later years, dodge has settled down somewhat, attending to his. I was out of town for a work related trip and i had forgotten to bring a book. Below is a list of neal stephensons books in order of when they were originally released. The personal website of author neal stephenson, unless its been hacked. The idea for this essay began online, when a shortened version of it was posted on. A typical stephenson novel will contain enough plot for two or three.
This fall, stephenson will reluctantly break from his cherished routines to promote anathem. The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on earth following the unexplained disintegration of the moon, and the remaking of human society as a spacebased civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck. The book still holds some marks of an email flame gone awry, and some tangents should have been edited to hone his formidable arguments. For more than two decades, neal stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. My new novel, fall, or dodge in hell, goes on sale in june 2019 in the usa. Stephensons family moved to champaignurbana, illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to ames, iowa. For years, ive been intimidated by science fiction author neal stephenson, mostly because the main thing ive always known about him is that his books are really, really long. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
I have been using a treadmill desk for a few years, but in midjanuary of 2014 i began keeping. I was in the local mall for lunch and stopped by the bookstore there at that time it would have been a walden books or b dalton to look for one. Fall, or dodge in hell by neal stephenson goodreads. And so, after some consideration, ive rescued the interview from editorial limbo to publish here in full. If youre new to stephenson, stay away and try some of his earlier books from the 1990s. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Neal stephensons new book fall is the scifi beach read of the year. Jun 16, 2015 i discovered neal stephenson by chance when i walked into a bookstore and a beautiful book caught my eye. Jun 14, 2017 seattle author neal stephensons latest sciencefiction novel, the rise and fall of d. I found this was a good way to approach this book, because as each new plot point was revealed, my enjoyment increased. What digital items do customers buy after viewing this item. Stephensons central characters, mostly women, serve as a welcome corrective to sciencefiction cliches. Author neal stephensons complete list of books and series in order, with the latest releases.