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.
发表于2024-03-29
Seveneves 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
作为曾经参与过某本史蒂芬森作品汉化的工作人员,读完《七夏娃》第一页我就意识到了这还是那熟悉的味道。极繁主义几乎已经成为史蒂芬森作品最显著的标签,在科幻作者里也许只有史蒂芬森如此话痨。史蒂芬森的作品就像一台航空发动机,揭开所有外盖,恨不得向读者展示所有细节。...
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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.
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评分刚读完part1,技术细节描写太细致了,原理、外貌、大小数据都有,太适合拍成电影或电视剧了。梦想将来可以把读过的一些优秀小说都改编成电影,然而我似乎与电影专业又很遥远。。。 2018 update:太多information dump,读到空间站生存那段就弃书了,还剩800多页实在读不下去
评分点子很好,前2/3也很硬,但是可读性比较差,太多没用必要的描写了,逼得我硬生生学会了英文略读
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。
Seveneves 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书