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What do readers say about Snow Crash?
sarcastic, punk tone entertaining, fast-moving plot convoluted, but well rolled computers and technologyOne of Time's 100 best English-language novels
A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you'll recognize it immediately
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What do readers say about Anathem?
big idea science fiction verbose and labored platonism and quantum mechanics a stephenson novelA #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe ... More details on Anathem
Ita:(1) In late Praxic Orth, an acronym (therefore, in ancient texts sometimes written ITA) whose precise etymology is a casualty of the loss of shoddily preserved information that will forever enshro...
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What do readers say about Neuromancer?
futuristic film noir dense and tangled adds to the atmosphere computers, hacking, and cyberspaceWinner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece-a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix-until he cros... More details on Neuromancer
“It’s not like I’m using,” Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. “It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug deficiency.” It was a Sprawl...
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What do readers say about Cryptonomicon?
how to win elections no discernible plot a huge sprawling novel compelling story linesWith this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
In 1942, Lawr... More details on Cryptonomicon
Let’s set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get ri...
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What do readers say about Altered Carbon?
noir science fiction fast paced action hardboiled detective novel classic noir meets cyberpunkNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this "tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction."-The New York Times Book... More details on Altered Carbon
In the Envoy Corps they teach you to let go before storage. Stick it in neutral and float. It’s the first lesson and the trainers drill it into you from day one. Hard-eyed Virginia Vidaura, dancer’s b...
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What do readers say about Quicksilver?
long, rambling, and minute immersive historical fiction well-researched and well-written doorstopper of a novelIn which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe - in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, n... More details on Quicksilver
ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman’s head. The crowd on the Common stop praying and sobbing for just as long as Jack Ketch stands there, elbows locked, fo...
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What do readers say about Reamde?
fast moving, intricate thriller information intensive prose meticulous and witty prose first person narrative"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling."
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world w... More details on Reamde
“The Apostropocalypse,” Richard said, mangling it a little, since it was hard to pronounce even when you were sober, and he had been hanging out in the tavern of Schloss Hundschüttler for a good part ...
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What do readers say about Seveneves?
technological tour de force epic science fiction entertaining, but seriously flawed near-future, hard science fictionFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic-a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world ... More details on Seveneves
An amateur astronomer in Utah was the first person on Earth to realize that something unusual was happening. Moments earlier, he had noticed a blur flourishing in the vicinity of the Reiner Gamma form...
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What do readers say about When Gravity Fails?
noir crime novel noir detective mystery hard-boiled detective novel a dismal mess throughoutIn a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he's available…for a price.
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madm... More details on When Gravity Fails
Chiriga’s nightclub was right in the middle of the Budayeen, eight blocks from the eastern gate, eight blocks from the cemetery. It was handy to have the graveyard so close-at-hand. The Budayeen was a...
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What do readers say about The Windup Girl?
biopunk dystopic science fiction strong plot line slow and flat themes and premiseWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q & A with the author.
Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while ... More details on The Windup Girl
Anderson turns the fruit in his hand, studying it. It's more like a gaudy sea anemone or a furry puffer fish than a fruit. Coarse green tendrils protrude from all sides, tickling his palm. The skin ha...
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