San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers Sept. 21 Sep 22, 2008
ANATHEM, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow; 960 pages; $29. 95): Scholars are summoned to save their planet from a disaster. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Best sellers Sep 21, 2008
"Anathem" by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow). 4. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Google May Move Supercomputers Offshore Sep 16, 2008
Neal Stephenson predicted in his book Cryptonomicon. over seven years ago. (Newsmax)
Wall Street's nightmare goes nuclear Sep 15, 2008
" Some felt their free attendance at industry functions was an absolute necessity given that it was industry's practice to conduct business over lunch, dinner, and golf outings. Does such a cavalier disregard of the responsibility inherent in government office remind you of anyone? If there is one thing that history will remember about the Bush-Cheney years, it will be that this administration was profoundly confident that it was above the law, that the rules governing other mortals simply did... (Salon)
Inventing The Future Sep 13, 2008
Cyberpunk star William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and a number of other writers have also taken cracks at portraying global networks replete with virtual reality. Bin, Bear and Benford, however, generally get the most respect from the non-sci-fi community. (Forbes -- Technology)
Sex, drugs, corruption and oil Sep 11, 2008
Neal Stephenson has devoted his life to writing big, bold novels whose obsessions range from the far future to the past, with big doses of science, philosophy, and computer geekery thrown in. Sometimes it seems like I've devoted my entire life to chronicling his literary exploits. (Salon)
THE GEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Sep 7, 2008
Neal Stephenson is not only among our best novelists, but among the most unusual. His first big-seller was "Snow Crash," a musing about virtual realities intruding into the real world. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Releases on the Horizon for Sept. 4 Sep 4, 2008
"Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. "The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008" by Bob Woodward. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Does the Internet cut into book time? Jun 26, 2008
I m actually pretty fond of steampunk and would put China Mieville and Neal Stephenson s Diamond Age in that bucket. But clockpunk. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Just about everything! Jun 24, 2008
" Oh, such a mess: dirty cockpits, irritating pranks and "raging or stale" couscous. Plus a Neal Stephenson e-mail quote! Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Get Your Reading Glasses Jun 8, 2008
Contributors range from Michael Chabon to Mary Gentle, Neal Stephenson and Michael Moorcock. The editors and three other contributors provide some historical context and suggestions for further reading. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
People Power Jun 4, 2008
In his excellent science fiction novel 'The Diamond Age' writer Neal Stephenson describes a world in which nanotechnology and nanobots are commonplace and 'Matter Compilers' can create objects at will. However there are no artificial intelligences on his imagined earth, the technology having failed to deliver on the promises made by generations of researchers. (BBC News -- Technology)
REVIEW: 'Interface' By Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George May 13, 2008
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George s book Interface was first published in 1994, but deserves a look from East Central Illinois readers in this election year because of the setting: Tuscola ... More recent copies use the authors names: Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Philip Rosedale Answers Your Second Life Questions Dec 16, 2007
Q: Have you ever read by Neal Stephenson. I dont know much about Second Life but it sounds similar to the Metaverse in the fiction novel. (New York Times)
Online book space is limitless, so let your inner techie out Nov 11, 2007
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992). OK, I m already off track. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
A Gibbon beats Leopard Oct 22, 2007
I think Neal Stephenson summed it up best in his extended essay ... Neal Stephenson also wrote (in that same essay, I think) that Emacs "outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish." And David Kastrup once wrote that Emacs is "probably the clumsiest and most dissociated piece of software ever. But it works with you, lives with you. It's a walrus tangoing with... (Guardian Unlimited)
Read More... Jul 26, 2007
Ever since BusinessWeek ran a breathless cover story titled "My Virtual Life" more than a year ago, reporters have been heralding Second Life as the here-and-now incarnation of the fictional Metaverse that Neal Stephenson conjured up 15 years ago in Snow Crash. (Wired created a 12-page "Travel Guide" last fall. (Disinformation)
The Essential SF Library Jul 2, 2007
Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age. Nicola Griffiths Slow River. (Suite101.com)
At the intersection between human and machine Jun 16, 2007
For all its gaudy glories, the film buzzes with a sense of unease about the rapidly changing relationship between our physical selves and our machines, a topic that Kon engages with as much sophistication as writers like Neal Stephenson and Michel Houellebecq, if rather more brevity. This anxious hum doesn't dilute the delight of watching "Paprika" jump from one representation to another - from a pane of glass into an image on a T-shirt - but it invests this film with a fascinating tension. (Denver Post)
2 worlds forge new reality Apr 1, 2007
But companies are learning that they cannot maintain the iron grip on their brand when they venture into the "metaverse," the term that author Neal Stephenson coined for virtual worlds in his novel "Snow Crash.". Disney, known for guarding its brand more zealously than most companies, established its Virtual Magic Kingdom in the hope that it would keep "tweens," children from roughly ages 8 to 14, from losing interest in its characters and theme parks. (FOX59, IN)
Insomniac's Brian Hastings Speaks on the PS3 Mar 28, 2007
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Gaming Reality Jan 12, 2007
Read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash as an impressionable teen in the '90s, and the gaming and Internet interfaces of the current reality will always disappoint you ... Now, if HeadPlay could design a pair of shades fit for Geordi LaForge to jack into Second Life's Star Trek, we might finally reach a level of virtual reality even Neal Stephenson could endorse. (Forbes)
