Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.
Born in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum) Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
其实不需要什么agent。月球被锁相,背对地球所受的引力比正对地球的引力来得小,天长日久积累的应力扯碎了月球,听上去就很合理嘛。 人类全灭只剩七女神,猜猜看她们叫什么名字? 必然是:路西法/雷维阿坦/撒旦/贝露菲格露/玛蒙/贝露赛布布/阿丝磨德乌丝 并没有 另外艾丽西...
评分今天终于读完了,历时一个半月。 这本长达900多页(以英文计)的小说分成三个部分,不过不是等长的,第三部分较短。 如果你喜欢《火星救援》这类硬科幻,请千万不要错过这本书。它相当于把前者的精彩扩写了三、四倍。同理,如果你不喜欢《火》,那么请pass,对于你来说,前者的...
评分 评分 评分读这本书带给我一种越来越少体验到的感觉:最初和文学,和新世界接触的惊奇。Neal Stephenson是个奇怪的家伙,尽管他自陈其文学目标是将一个好故事,但在这本书中,他却把自己对机械的迷恋推进到前所未有的程度。经常用几页去描述一个自己很得意的设计。第一次读的人需要保持耐心。
评分拿起来就放不下…… 其实可以写一个系列的。
评分part1和part2对hard rain, white sky的到来和人类的应对写的太有一种engineer's mindset的赶脚了,反倒是part3原本最让人期待的五千年后,却让人感觉一种“嘿,Neal,你简直就是在扯淡”的感觉。
评分喜欢硬科幻的,推荐这本。期待电影或剧。
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