That's Neal Stephenson, best-selling novelist, cult science fictionist, and literary channeler of the hacker mindset. For Stephenson, whose books mash up past, present, and future—and whose ...

(Morrow, $27.95)You certainly get your money's worth with Neal Stephenson's "The Confusion ... But the clever rogues (Jack is king of the Vagabonds) manage to keep most of the precious cargo ...

"Everybody reads Neal Stephenson here," says Mike Paull ... Will Charles III become the Climate King? Why have some people avoided Covid? We don’t know, and so far their DNA hasn’t told ...

Six months after The Confusion, Neal Stephenson’s inexhaustible ... “Half-Cocked” Jack Shaftoe, the King of the Vagabonds, L’Emmerdeur (“he who fucks shit up,” roughly), whose Arabian ...

Hold on - Neal Stephenson's launched a video game Kickstarter ... a fictionalised medieval Europe pretty much stuffed with adventurers and vagabonds. It's already spawned the Mongoliad, a serial ...

So claims philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the real-world savants fictionalized in Neal Stephenson's ... Meanwhile, vagabond Jack Shaftoe (who, thanks to a ...

The Big U was Stephenson's first solo novel and has recently been re-released after being out of print for a number of years. It is a satire of American college life. Even Stephenson himself ...

This may, possibly, be one future of the novel: as an app.And who better to push the limits of writing than Neal Stephenson, an author whose novels have already explored weird and unusual corners ...

POLOSTAN, by Neal Stephenson When the final twist of a novel leaves you more excited about pages yet to be written than the ones you’ve just read, the immediate temptation is to downgrade the ...