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.
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.
前不久看過一本書,提到一個觀點,科幻小說是值得關注的書籍類彆,因為其作者對未來的預測能催人思考。這是近兩年很火的一本科幻小說,比爾蓋茨推薦過,最近齣瞭中文版,翻譯的是颱灣人,行文中很多颱灣中文詞匯。故事創意不錯,想象力也可以,不過相比《沙丘》、《海伯利安》...
評分尼爾在西方科幻世界裏有一大批粉絲。早前就在油管上看過一個視頻,比爾·蓋茨邀請尼爾拍瞭一個VR虛擬現實對談,特意錶達自己對尼爾的大作《七夏娃》的欽佩之情。後來他也受邀到全美很多著名大學進行演講,進一步迴答讀者關於書中的很多新概念的疑惑。尼爾一直以賽博朋剋流硬科...
評分夜以繼日的看完Neal Stephenson的七夏娃,很多話想說,一直沒得空坐下來寫讀後感。然後昨晚看著英國脫歐公投結果,驚呆的感覺完全是書裏的開篇描寫。月球被無緣無故的打散成七塊。地球人都驚呆瞭。 睡一夜醒來,英鎊跳水之餘道瓊也跌瞭六百點。發現英國脫歐的結果和七夏娃的情...
評分 評分前不久看過一本書,提到一個觀點,科幻小說是值得關注的書籍類彆,因為其作者對未來的預測能催人思考。這是近兩年很火的一本科幻小說,比爾蓋茨推薦過,最近齣瞭中文版,翻譯的是颱灣人,行文中很多颱灣中文詞匯。故事創意不錯,想象力也可以,不過相比《沙丘》、《海伯利安》...
史詩級。Dhina見證的那些英雄們一個個死去的情節,讓我流淚不止。Ymir的六人壯舉,Sean孤獨的死撐到最後,Markus的神勇,日本核專傢獻身。。。就連Dhina的第一任男朋友對忍耐號的改造和自殺。。。都哭紅眼瞭。。。為什麼寫死他們啊?他們的基因多好啊,可惜瞭。。。五韆年後的那節情節不重要(想睡Beled),主要是看個作者對人類的力量抱有的篤定和情懷瞭。看的是英文版,長篇纍牘的細節把想象力榨乾瞭。
评分喜歡硬科幻的,推薦這本。期待電影或劇。
评分讀這本書帶給我一種越來越少體驗到的感覺:最初和文學,和新世界接觸的驚奇。Neal Stephenson是個奇怪的傢夥,盡管他自陳其文學目標是將一個好故事,但在這本書中,他卻把自己對機械的迷戀推進到前所未有的程度。經常用幾頁去描述一個自己很得意的設計。第一次讀的人需要保持耐心。
评分一次神秘的災難使得地球將在兩年內變得不適宜人類居住,全球各國集閤所有力量製定瞭一個計劃,讓人類作為一個種族得以在太空中繼續生存。然而人性之復雜外加太空中的各種威脅使得幸存者所剩無幾。五韆年後他們的後裔分裂為七個具有不同特徵的種族,總人口達到三十億。當這些人重返地錶,地球就像外星世界一樣陌生,而且似乎還有其他未知的存在……尼爾·史蒂文森的行文往往會突然齣現神來之筆,讓人驚嘆。
评分The hardest science fiction novel I have ever read. The plots can be tell by 10% of the book’s length, and the conceptual settings and technical details take another 90%, two thirds of which can be reduced by illustrations.
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