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Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson is an American speculative fiction writer and essayist whose novels explore mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.
Biography
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer whose works of speculative fiction have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque. His novel Snow Crash (1992) was included on Time’s list of the 100 best novels since 1923. He has also published a collection of essays and lectures entitled Some Remarks (2012) and writes nonfiction essays about technology for publications such as Wired.
Stephenson has explored subjects including mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science in novels such as Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle. He has written collaboratively under the pseudonym Stephen Bury with his uncle George Jewsbury, worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, co-founded the Subutai Corporation, and served as Magic Leap’s chief futurist. His work for the Long Now Foundation inspired the novel Anathem (2008).
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Books by Neal Stephenson
Anathem
Anathem centers on Fraa Erasmas, a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a cloistered community of mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers separated from the outside “saecular” world. During the once-in-a-decade week-long rite of Apert the concent opens to the Extramuros, and events during that week set in motion life-changing consequences for Erasmas.