Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo. Amazon/47 North, $14.95 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-61218-236-0 Stephenson (Snow Crash) and Bear ...

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Ghengis Khan shook up the world in the 12th Century, and now in the 21st Century Neal Stephenson’s novel about him may shake up the publishing world: It’s partly interactive, partly social media, and ...

(Los Angeles Times)For all of Neal Stephenson's achievements, his most impressive may be his ability to attract a following equal parts hacker and literati. His popularity is all the more anomalous ...

While the publishing industry fights to survive, a group of scifi writers and software developers have struck out on their own. Led by Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon, the group built an ...

Neal Stephenson is amazing at beginnings and not so hot at endings, and his new novel, “Seveneves,” has a marvelous opening sentence: “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” The ...

Neal Stephenson's breakout hit, Snow Crash, envisioned a world of virtual reality—in 1992. The Diamond Age foresaw the future of nanotechnology in 1995. The more recent Reamde took the reader on a ...

If there is anyone who knows where the future is headed it’s Neal Stephenson. The author of the classic cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, and, most recently, Seveneves, Stephenson has long been a voyager ...

Seattle author Neal Stephenson is having a good year. A very good year. First, Stephenson’s novel “Seveneves” made Bill Gates’ summer reading list. Then, the White House announced that “Seveneves” was ...