Neal Stephenson
Auteur de Le Samouraï virtuel
A propos de l'auteur
Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author, was born on October 31, 1959 in Maryland. He graduated from Boston University in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography with a minor in physics. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984. It received little attention and stayed out of print until afficher plus Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted in 2001. His second novel was Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller was published in 1988, but it was his novel Snow Crash (1992) that brought him popularity. It fused memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology. Neal Stephenson has won several awards: Hugo for Best Novel for The Diamond Age (1996), the Arthur C. Clarke for Best Novel for Quicksilver (2004), and the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for The System of the World (2005). He recently completed the The Baroque Cycle Trilogy, a series of historical novels. It consists of eight books and was originally published in three volumes and Reamde. His latest novel is entitled The Rise and Fall of D. O. D. O. Stephenson also writes under the pseudonym Stephen Bury. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: U.S. novelist Neal Stephenson at Science Foo Camp 2008. Author Bob Lee; cropped by Beyond My Ken
Séries
Œuvres de Neal Stephenson
The Great Simoleon Caper {story} 19 exemplaires
Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet {essay} 13 exemplaires
Global Neighborhood Watch 10 exemplaires
Communication Prosthetics: Threat or Menace? 8 exemplaires
Spew {story} 6 exemplaires
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip {story} 5 exemplaires
2006 5 exemplaires
In the Kingdom of Mao Bell {essay} 4 exemplaires
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out {essay} 3 exemplaires
It's All Geek to Me {essay} 3 exemplaires
Smiley's People {article} 2 exemplaires
Stephenson Neal 2 exemplaires
The Future of Ideas 1 exemplaire
ERA DEL DIAMANTE (L') 1 exemplaire
Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) Publisher: Spectra 1 exemplaire
Quicksilver Volume One of The Baroque Cycle 1 exemplaire
Seveneves (free sampler): Astounding apocalyptic fiction from the New York Times Bestseller 1 exemplaire
Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #3 1 exemplaire
Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #2 1 exemplaire
Two for the Road 1 exemplaire
Baroque Cycle, including: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver (novel), The System Of The World (novel), The… (2011) 1 exemplaire
Termination Shock - Az összeomlás kora 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Tout et plus encore : Une histoire compacte de l'infini (2003) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,514 exemplaires
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributeur — 1,019 exemplaires
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Stephenson, Neal
- Nom légal
- Stephenson, Neal Town
- Autres noms
- Bury, Stephen
- Date de naissance
- 1959-10-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- États-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Fort Meade, Maryland, USA
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Ames, Iowa, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Études
- Boston University (BA | Geography | 1981)
- Professions
- novelist
short story writer
essayist
Subutai Corporation (Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder) - Relations
- Jewsbury, George Frederick (samen onder pseud. Stephen Bury)
- Organisations
- The Clock of the Long Now Project
Subutai Corporation - Prix et distinctions
- Hugo Award (1996)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (2004)
Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award (1996)
Prometheus Award (2005)
Locus Award (1996, 2000, 2005, 2009) - Agent
- Liz Darhansoff
- Courte biographie
- Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system,[1] and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He is currently Magic Leap's Chief Futurist.
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purchased the latest Neal Stephenson book yesterday à The Green Dragon (Août 2019)
entry point for Neal Stephenson à Science Fiction Fans (Juin 2013)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson - LinuxLefty tutoring UnrulySun and kgodey à 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Mars 2012)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 76
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 108,115
- Popularité
- #80
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2,544
- ISBN
- 629
- Langues
- 23
- Favoris
- 776