Neal Stephenson
Forfatter af Snow Crash
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Image credit: U.S. novelist Neal Stephenson at Science Foo Camp 2008. Author Bob Lee; cropped by Beyond My Ken
Serier
Værker af Neal Stephenson
The Great Simoleon Caper {story} 19 eksemplarer
Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet {essay} 13 eksemplarer
Global Neighborhood Watch 10 eksemplarer
Communication Prosthetics: Threat or Menace? 8 eksemplarer
Spew {story} 6 eksemplarer
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip {story} 5 eksemplarer
2006 5 eksemplarer
In the Kingdom of Mao Bell {essay} 4 eksemplarer
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out {essay} 3 eksemplarer
It's All Geek to Me {essay} 3 eksemplarer
Smiley's People {article} 2 eksemplarer
Stephenson Neal 2 eksemplarer
The Future of Ideas 1 eksemplar
ERA DEL DIAMANTE (L') 1 eksemplar
Quicksilver Volume One of The Baroque Cycle 1 eksemplar
Seveneves (free sampler): Astounding apocalyptic fiction from the New York Times Bestseller 1 eksemplar
Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #3 1 eksemplar
Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #2 1 eksemplar
Two for the Road 1 eksemplar
Baroque Cycle, including: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver (novel), The System Of The World (novel), The… (2011) 1 eksemplar
Termination Shock - Az összeomlás kora 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 1,514 eksemplarer
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Bidragyder — 1,019 eksemplarer
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Stephenson, Neal
- Juridisk navn
- Stephenson, Neal Town
- Andre navne
- Bury, Stephen (pseudonym)
- Fødselsdato
- 1959
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
- Bopæl
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Ames, Iowa, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Uddannelse
- Boston University (BA | Geography | 1981)
- Erhverv
- novelist
short story writer
essayist
Subutai Corporation (Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder) - Relationer
- Jewsbury, George Frederick (samen onder pseud. Stephen Bury)
- Organisationer
- The Clock of the Long Now Project
Subutai Corporation - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Hugo Award (1996)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (2004)
Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award (1996)
Prometheus Award (2005)
Locus Award (1996, 2000, 2005, 2009) - Agent
- Liz Darhansoff
- Kort biografi
- 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.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 76
- Also by
- 15
- Medlemmer
- 108,136
- Popularitet
- #80
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 2,544
- ISBN
- 629
- Sprog
- 23
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