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.
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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...
評分作為曾經參與過某本史蒂芬森作品漢化的工作人員,讀完《七夏娃》第一頁我就意識到瞭這還是那熟悉的味道。極繁主義幾乎已經成為史蒂芬森作品最顯著的標簽,在科幻作者裏也許隻有史蒂芬森如此話癆。史蒂芬森的作品就像一颱航空發動機,揭開所有外蓋,恨不得嚮讀者展示所有細節。...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 科幻 小說 硬科幻 美國 NealStephenson 科幻/奇幻 英文 English
剛讀完part1,技術細節描寫太細緻瞭,原理、外貌、大小數據都有,太適閤拍成電影或電視劇瞭。夢想將來可以把讀過的一些優秀小說都改編成電影,然而我似乎與電影專業又很遙遠。。。 2018 update:太多information dump,讀到空間站生存那段就棄書瞭,還剩800多頁實在讀不下去
評分給第一部5星,第二部6星,第三部3星,閤起來大概四星吧。看過的Neal Stephenson第一部書,很佩服他天馬行空的想象力,尤其是第一部第二部很特彆的“利用當代科技而進行外太空探索”的科幻世界觀。第三部個人覺得很無聊,感覺是為瞭科幻而科幻,不看也罷。
評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。
評分喜歡硬科幻的,推薦這本。期待電影或劇。
評分part1和part2對hard rain, white sky的到來和人類的應對寫的太有一種engineer's mindset的趕腳瞭,反倒是part3原本最讓人期待的五韆年後,卻讓人感覺一種“嘿,Neal,你簡直就是在扯淡”的感覺。
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