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Neal Stephenson

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in Fort Meade, MD, The United States

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Nonfiction

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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 · 1,048,611 ratings · 69,527 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Crash 4.01 avg rating — 303,298 ratings — published 1992 — 16 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 — 127,996 ratings — published 2015 — 62 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 — 118,510 ratings — published 1999 — 7 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 — 94,113 ratings — published 1995 — 83 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 — 76,914 ratings — published 2008 — 6 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 — 57,875 ratings — published 2011 — 38 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
	Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 44,012 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	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 — 35,221 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) 4.28 avg rating — 25,550 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 — 23,255 ratings — published 2004 — 50 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 (1 book)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

4.17 avg rating — 77,262 ratings

Reamde (1 book)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

4.00 avg rating — 57,891 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 — 24,518 ratings

The Baroque Cycle 8-book (8 books)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

4.27 avg rating — 14,281 ratings

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

3.85 avg rating — 6,857 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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June 2016 - Sci-Fi

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 400p

9 votes, 42.9%

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey 460p

4 votes, 19.0%

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon 369p

3 votes, 14.3%

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson 308p

3 votes, 14.3%

The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke 352p

2 votes, 9.5%

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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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