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Neil stephenson s novels, including the baroque trilogy and reamde, are a dazzling blend of imagination and science, philosophy and history. Neal town stephenson born october 31, 1959 is an american writer known for his works of speculative fiction. Im sort of torn on whether to go through reamde or cryptonomicon next, but im open to other suggestions. That book fused nearfuture societal extrapolation, cyberpunk online interactions, and geeky infodumps with a conventional thriller. Neal stephenson combines the earthly and the ideal to create a nerdish homebrew 21stcentury platonism. A former drug smuggler turned mostly straightlaced business man owns a multimillion dollar computer game, a refugee from eritrea, a hungarian computer hacker, a computer engineer, a further cast of international characters and the russia mob all feature largely in reamde. Reamde may be stephenson s most straightforward and accessible work to date. These days it has become a lot easier to get books and manuals online. Congratulations to the good people at fat pony games for shipping lascaux. Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by american author neal stephenson, set in two different time periods.
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