"He -- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it -- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters."
This is the opening line of ...
a. Orlando -- by Virginia Woolf
b. The Queen's Fool -- by Philippa Gregory
c. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye -- by A.S. Byatt
d. Quicksilver -- by Neal Stephenson
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This is the opening line of ...
a. Orlando -- by Virginia Woolf
b. The Queen's Fool -- by Philippa Gregory
c. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye -- by A.S. Byatt
d. Quicksilver -- by Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson
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born
October 31, 1959
gender
male
place of birth
Fort Meade, Maryland, The United States
website
genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction
influences
Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
about this author
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, cryptography, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system. He has co-written two books with his uncle George F. Jewsbury under the joint pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson's books tend to have elaborate, inventive plots drawing on numerous technological and sociological ideas at the same time. This distinguishes him from other mainstream sc...more
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson avg rating 3.93 — 18,977 ratings — published 1992 29 editions |
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson avg rating 4.21 — 8,191 ratings — published 1999 26 editions |
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson avg rating 4.14 — 6,607 ratings — published 1995 22 editions |
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Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson avg rating 3.82 — 4,434 ratings — published 2003 14 editions |
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The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2) by Neal Stephenson avg rating 4.14 — 2,802 ratings — published 2004 16 editions |
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson avg rating 4.17 — 2,655 ratings — published 2008 15 editions |
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The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3) by Neal Stephenson avg rating 4.23 — 2,351 ratings — published 2003 12 editions |
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Zodiac by Neal Stephenson avg rating 3.63 — 2,617 ratings — published 1992 14 editions |
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson avg rating 3.74 — 1,203 ratings — published 1999 4 editions |
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The Big U by Neal Stephenson avg rating 3.13 — 986 ratings — published 1984 5 editions |
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September 2008,
Neal Stephenson
"I see this as more and more of a social class issue. I'm remembering the advent of late '60s/early '70s drug culture when I was a kid. Authority figures would try to scare us away from drugs, and whether or not we were actually using drugs, we would just laugh at them because their threats and warnings seemed so overwrought." ...More
"I see this as more and more of a social class issue. I'm remembering the advent of late '60s/early '70s drug culture when I was a kid. Authority figures would try to scare us away from drugs, and whether or not we were actually using drugs, we would just laugh at them because their threats and warnings seemed so overwrought." ...More
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"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)
— Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)
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"The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. "
— Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)
— Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be--or to be indistinguishable from--self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)
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| Goodreads Librarians: eBooks | 11 | 63 | Jun 05, 2009 12:25AM | |
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