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Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable - yet strangely inv...
The Big U
Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".But if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, th...
The Cobweb
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a ...
The Confusion
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [2]: The Confusion, the shelf-bending sequel to Neal Stephenson's equally meaty Quicksilver, continues his epic Baroque Cycle by following a remarkable cast of late-17th-century characters that includes spies, vagabonds, and historical ...
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods - World War II and the present. Our 1940s' heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-h...
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Decades into the future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art inter...
Interface
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likeable Midwestern governor with one insidious advantage. An advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip inside his head wires him to a computerise...
The Mongoliad: Book One
Neal Stephenson and Erik Bear and Greg Bear and Joseph Brassey and E. D. deBirmingham and Cooper Moo and Mark Teppo
Foreworld [1]: The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty M...
The Mongoliad: Book Three
Neal Stephenson and Erik Bear and Greg Bear and Joseph Brassey and Nicole Galland and Cooper Moo and Mark Teppo
Foreworld [3]: The shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II hangs over the shattered Holy Roman Church as the cardinals remain deadlocked, unable to choose a new pope. Only the Binders and a mad priest have a hope of uniting the Church against the i...
The Mongoliad: Book Two
Neal Stephenson and Erik Bear and Greg Bear and Joseph Brassey and Nicole Galland and Cooper Moo and Mark Teppo
Foreworld [2]: This riveting second installment in Stephenson and company’s epic tale focuses on the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most resilient survivors. The Shield Brethren,...
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [1]: In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date.The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campu...
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in whic...
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
What would happen if the world were ending?When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere....
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison — a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and j...
The System of the World
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [3]: 'Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place - especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy - in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Agi...
Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, ...
Zodiac
Neal Stephenson
Sangamon Taylor's a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil - all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows...