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Obama Announcing Creation of Military CyberCommands Today

CA Neal Stephenson (the author of "Snow Crash," "Cryptonomicon" and many other "cyber-cool" works) must be smiling today. But, the politically liberal adult in me, running a small software business that processes thousands of records containing ...
Fri, May 29 | from Daily Kos

Circuit Strike.One Invading iPhone

CA movement. cs.one's audio/visual effects, gameplay and Rez like environment were inspired by Cyberspace as described by William Gibson in his award winning Cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's vision of the matrix in Snow Crash. ...
Fri, May 22 | from IGN

Book news: New fiction, fiction in competition and a fat cat wins

CA In the "best novel" category, adult fiction, young adult fiction and children's fiction compete against one another: The contenders include Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book," Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother," "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, ...
Thu, May 21 | from latimesblogs.latimes.com

Reviewer remembers the good, the bad and the ugly in books

AZ Book most likely to make your head hurt "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson is near a whopping 1000 pages and weaves a wild story of invented words and in-depth characters in a futuristic world where the most intelligent people are in communes closely watched ...
Wed, May 13 | from Arizona Daily Wildcat

Locus Award Finalists Announced

The finalists for the Locus Awards (the best science fiction books and stories of the year, chosen by the general public) have been announced over at their site. Best science fiction novel entries are: Matter, Iain M. Banks City at the End of Time, Greg Bear Marsbound, Joe Haldeman Anathem,...
Wed, Apr 29 | from other-worlds-cafe.com

The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review

I also tried using it in both the male and female versions with Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, but that only made the difficult novel with it’s unique vocabulary even more ponderous. For straightforward book reading, however, the Kindle is great, ...
Tue, Apr 7 | from ZDNet

2009 Resolutions

I'm going to reread a lot of books this year. I just finished rereading The Illuminatus! Trilogy for the first time in years, and now I'm going to go back through Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I might also hit Infinite Jest and Don Quixote. These are books I enjoyed a lot, but read long enough...
Sat, Jan 17 | from Montykins

Review: 'Anathem,' by Neal Stephenson

CO - By Chauncey Mabe McClatchy Newspapers Much as I enjoyed Neal Stephenson's ravishingly brilliant, outrageously ambitious "Anathem," I can't help but think it ...
Fri, Dec 26 | from Boulder Daily Camera

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made | Mania.com

That's the sort of thing Neal Stephenson writes in his hacker novel Snow Crash, a fascinating, horrifically violent semi-satire where the hero/protagonist of the story is named Hiro Protagonist. This book coined the terms "avatar" and ...
Sat, Nov 22 | from Comics2Film

Opinion: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

msaari's review: "An excellent book, just as good as Cryptonomicon or the Baroque Cycle (or actually even slightly better than Baroque Cycle, which kind of lagged at some points). The world is just fabulous, and I would've loved getting ...
Mon, Oct 27 | from Recent books tagged "cyberpunk" on LibraryThing

"The only thing keeping these banks honest is the other banks"

Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon There is a lot of heavy bamboo in front of this truck, dozens of makeshift turnpikes blocking their path to the river, for the officers of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Fleet, and of the Fourth Marines, who dreamed up this little operation forgot to take the Friday Af...
Mon, Oct 13 | from So Quoted

Book Review | Anathem Futuristic tale blends humor, suspense

OH - Anathem stands tall next to Stephenson's Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon as well as works by other science-fiction writers starting with Jules Verne. ...
Tue, Sep 9 | from Columbus Dispatch

Best Neal Stephenson Characters - Anathem Review - Popular Mechanics

His first appearance is good, too: Raven offers the protagonist a hit of Snow Crash—a drug-like computer program made to be accessed by people in a virtual metaverse, and although the offer is made while the two's avatars are in the ...
Mon, Sep 8 | from Popular Mechanics

ArmadilloCon 2008: What You Should Have Read

Science fiction: Cory Doctorow: Little Brother Alistair Reynolds: House of Suns -- new space opera Neal Stephenson: Anathem Thomas Disch: Word of God -- in this novel Thomas Disch reveals that he's God, and that his opponent is Phillip K. Dick, which he's been fighting for all eternity.
Sun, Aug 31 | from unless-spring (Livejournal)

Opinion: Spooky, wonderful music CD in Neal Stephenson’s new novel

“Al got an advance review copy of neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem – which looks really good! — and discovered that it came wiht a CD of music inspired by the story. Incredibly weird, wonderful music. ...
Thu, Jun 26 | from 1337g33k (WordPress)

REVIEW: 'Interface' By Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George - Journal Gazette and Times-Courier

REVIEW: 'Interface' By Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George IL - May 12, 2008 Stephenson and J. Frederick George also have another book set in Iowa called “The Cobweb” at a fictional university called Eastern Iowa University, ...
Mon, May 12 | from Journal Gazette and Times-Courier

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