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Neal Stephenson

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Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,030,197 ratings · 67,737 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating — 297,766 ratings — published 1992 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seveneves really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 124,944 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cryptonomicon 4.23 avg rating — 116,903 ratings — published 1999 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 4.16 avg rating — 93,214 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 75,554 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reamde really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,282 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 46,563 ratings — published 2003 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1) by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author), Nicole Galland (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 34,415 ratings — published 2017 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 25,219 ratings — published 2004 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 24,516 ratings — published 2004 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Neal Stephenson

Anathem (3 books)
by

Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

4.17 avg rating — 75,891 ratings

The Foreworld Saga (15 books)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author),

Ellis Amdur (Goodreads Author),

Charles C. Mann,

Mark Teppo (Goodreads Author),

Dean Kotz (Illustrator)

3.68 avg rating — 24,257 ratings

Bomb Light (2 books)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

3.86 avg rating — 5,971 ratings

Criptonomicón (3 books)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author),

Pedro Jorge Romero (Goodreads Author) (Translator)

4.06 avg rating — 2,149 ratings

Fall of the Cross (3 books)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author),

Mark Teppo (Goodreads Author),

Ellis Amdur (Goodreads Author),

Charles C. Mann,

Dean Kotz (Artist)

3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings

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“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson

tags: bad, bad-guy, bad-person, crime, humor, motherfucker, revenge

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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

tags: argument, trolls

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December 2023 New School Classics

Sula by Toni Morrison, 1973, 174 pages

78 votes, 38.6%

A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene, 1936, 184 pages

35 votes, 17.3%

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pages

26 votes, 12.9%

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, 1995, 499 pages

18 votes, 8.9%

South Moon Under by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1933, 260 pages

16 votes, 7.9%

The Great World by David Malouf, 1989, 336 pages

16 votes, 7.9%

City Primeval by Elmore Leonard, 1980, 275 pages

13 votes, 6.4%

202 total votes

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“The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“This was governed entirely by Newtonian mechanics. Each piece of the moon attracted every other piece more or less strongly depending on its mass and its distance. It could be simulated on a computer quite easily. The whole rubble cloud was gravitationally bound. Any shrapnel fast enough to escape had done so already. The rest was drifting around in a loose huddle of rocks. Sometimes they banged into one another. Eventually they would stick together and the moon would begin to re-form.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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