Cryptonomicon


X Minus One: Hello, Tomorrow (February 29, 1956)
The Rose Code
In Search of the Multiverse
Big Bang Theory
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Cryo (Cryo Series Book 1)
The Book of Lambspring
The Cosmology of Tengrism: Tree of Life and Lifestream.
Concepts of Biology
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Why Marxists Oppose In...
 
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Leon Trotsky
Liber Monstrorum
Tom Monaghan: Domino's Pizza Innovator (Food Dudes)
ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism
The Principles of Communism
The Bell-Tower
Neal Stephenson
A hive mind is a social organization of RISTs that are capable of processing semantic memes ("thinking"). These could be either carbon-based or silicon-based. RISTs who enter a hive mind surrender their independent identities (which are mere illusions anyway). For purposes of convenience, the constituents of the hive mind are assigned bit-pattern designators. ...more
Neil Stephenson

Neal Stephenson
Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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