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Neal Stephenson's new novel, as his longtime fans will soon discern, is a sequel to his earlier book Reamde, though it's not touted as such in the marketing material.
Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart, and Austin Grossman have created a nine-hour audio drama salvaged from Magic Leap's ambitious AR work.
Tech Neal Stephenson Says AI-Generated ChatGPT Is ‘Simply Not Interesting’ The author, who coined the term "metaverse" in his science-fiction novel “Snow Crash,” says the algorithm-based ...
Neal Stephenson is amazing at beginnings and not so hot at endings, and his new novel, "Seveneves," has a marvelous opening sentence: "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." ...
Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson knits together ideas as old as the Bible and as up to date as Elon Musk’s musings in an epic 880-page novel titled “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.” ...
For all of Neal Stephenson's achievements, his most impressive may be his ability to attract a following equal parts hacker and literati. His popularity is all the more anomalous because his books ...
Without those 300 pages, though, it wouldn’t be Neal Stephenson. It’s not possible to separate the essential from the decorative. Nor would we want that, even if it were were.
Science-fiction author Neal Stephenson speaks at a Town Hall event in 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Microsoft and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, have their own visions for a virtual ...
How Neal Stephenson’s climate change epic ‘Termination Shock’ got its start at Burbank airport While his novel is speculative fiction set just a handful of years in the future, it is very ...
Neal Stephenson will be speaking at GamesBeat Next 2024 on October 28-29. Wētā Workshop is a special effects and design company that filmmaker Peter Jackson spun up for The Lord of the Rings ...
Consider the possibility that Neal Stephenson is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. If he is, it would hardly be his only accomplishment: Stephenson is the author of some of ...