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

Four times number one New York Times bestseller Neal Stephenson returns with a brilliant and compelling thriller cast in the mould of his cult classic Cryptonomicon. Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the g...

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem, the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Stephenson's first novel is now back in print. With a plot that meanders through academic catch-22s, massive, sonic stereo wars, neon-worshiping cults, and a campus-wide civil war, this scathing send-up of American college life presages the rise and fall of one of the most imaginative novelists writing today.

A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers and secrets, spies and code breakers, cryptography and high-tech finance. When the adult grandchildren of two men once involved in code-breaking espionage in World War II find a sunken Nazi submarine, they're led to a massive conspiracy, the effects of which can either enhance freedom--or subjugate the world. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

One of Time's 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you'll recognize it immediately 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 just about everything in between with a cool, ...