The story is presented in the form of a letter from the main character, Stark, to a female cypherpunk whom he meets in the course of his work. In the story, most information and media channels are hooked together in something called the Spew....
In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the...
A billion Chinese are using new technology to create the fastest growing economy on the planet. But while the information wants to be free, do they?
Wired....
This is "the Word" - one man's word, certainly - about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) - acclaimed novelist,...
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling "Baroque Cycle," THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD delivers intrigue, adventure, and excitement set against the political upheaval of the early 18th century Tory-Whig power...
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves — including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack — devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues — a perilous race...
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity,...
One flew over the animal house…
If George Orwell had written a novel more like Animal House (the movie) than like Animal Farm (the book), and if Orwell were a young American whose early twenties were spent in the 1980s, and if Orwell counted...