quicksilver anniversary illustrated introduction

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12 reviews
Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George

Spectra, 2005

Another Stephenson masterpiece
Stephenson's current day story is very thought provoking under current global circumstances. I enjoyed every page and delighted in every irony and found myself glued to the book for hours at a time.

SPSS Manual: for Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 4e

1 review
Paul Stephenson, Neal Rogness, ...

W. H. Freeman, 2002

The study guide only had selected answers
I thought it was ok because the guide did not have all of the odd problems worked out. Usually a study has all the odd problems answered. Without it, you are left wondering if the guide has an explanation at all for the problem. When the it does have the answers, it explains it very well and does not leave any doubt about the solution.

Snow Crash

538 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Bantam Spectra, 1992

Awesome Cyberpunk
I've read this book at least a dozen times. Quick whit, parallel storylines. It reads like a movie, or a graphic novel (as it was originally intended) If you're into SciFi with a cyber twist, this is a must read

Zodiac

91 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Grove Press, 2007

Great read
Stephenson continually impresses me with his ability to research many different topics in depth enough to accurately blend facts with his great prose.

Cryptonomicon

829 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Avon, 2002

Long and glorious.
Neal Stephenson is a fantastic writer, and his skills truly shine in Cryptonomicon. Yes, it's a long book, but I suggest to all those who find fault with Stephenson's long-windedness that brevity is not somehow 'better' than verbosity, it's just different. Stephenson has carved his own niche in the continuum of writing-style, and, yes, it's in the Long-Winded-Land area of the spectrum. Is it a ...

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)

77 reviews
Neal Stephenson, 2004

Read the first? Don't give up yet!
So you've read the first, and you can't help noticing that many people quit on the Baroque trilogy at that point. Should you keep going? I guess it depends. This is a trilogy that is after enormous ideas. Where a straight history would focus on finance or economics or science or math or transportation or politics or power or even the human heart as the driving force behind history, only a ...

THE DIAMOND AGE: OR, A YOUNG LADY'S ILLUSTRATED PRIMER (ROC)

332 reviews
NEAL STEPHENSON

ROC, 1996

A remarkable vision of the future, that doesn't quite become tangible
The Diamond Age is an ambitious book, and one that kept me enthralled through about 350 of its 450 or so pages and then impatiently waiting for what turned out to be a highly improbable, fairly confusing, Hollywood style ending (where at all odds and in spite of massive casualties on all sides and the cataclysmic world-changing significance of the events they are caught up in, all of the main ...

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

312 reviews
Neal Stephenson

HarperAudio, 2004

Just what I was looking for...
Quicksilver was exactly what I was looking for this summer, it was in fact more than I'd hoped for.

Anathem
Neal Stephenson

William Morrow, 2008

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 inverted—world. Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting ...

The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)

65 reviews
Neal Stephenson, 2004

Epic History Made Readable
This three-volume, 9-book set is, believe it or not, a *prequel* to his previous massive effort, Cryptonomicon. In the Baroque Cycle we find the ancestors of no less than NINE characters of that modern day tale of cryptography. But the Baroque trilogy covers much more ground. The fictional characters are used to take the reader through the lives of very real historical characters. The topics ...

King of the Vagabonds: The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle)

8 reviews
Neal Stephenson

HarperTorch, 2006

Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is not a trilogy, trilogy meaning "a group of three novels which together form a related series, although each is complete in itself." It is eight novels published in three hardcover volumes. Thus "cycle." In an interview in 2004, Stephenson said that one reason why he named it a "cycle" was that some people would call it a trilogy when it obviously wasn't and he wanted to, ...

The Big U

76 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Harper Perennial, 2001

Don't know why it was out of print
What a great book! I don't know about 80s college parody or whatever, but Stephenson writes some great characters and the style of narration is great. This book is great because of the exaggeration and because while I was reading it, Stephenson made the extreme stuff make sense. It's like watching a movie where the acting is so good you don't even go "She's a great actor" because the performance ...

Snow Crash (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection)
Neal Stephenson

SFBC, 2007

In the near future, Americans excel at only two things: writing software and delivering pizza in less than 30 minutes. Franchises line the Los Angeles freeway as far as the eye can see: Reverend Waynes Pearly Gates, Mr. Lees Greater Hong Kong, Uncle Enzos CosaNostra Pizza, Incorporated. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the autonomous city-states that law-abiding citizens are afraid to leave. Is it any ...

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1 (The Baroque Cycle)

5 reviews
Neal Stephenson

HarperTorch, 2006

This is a paperback of the first 3rd of Volume 1: Quicksilver
Here's the complete list to help people avoid buying something they already have: Quicksilver, Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle Book 1 - Quicksilver Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds Book 3 - Odalisque The Confusion, Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle Book 4 - Bonanza Book 5 - The Juncto The System of the World, Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle Book 6 - Solomon's Gold Book 7 - ...

In the Beginning...was the Command Line

100 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Harper Perennial, 1999

The Reason Why I Learned to Love Linux
This book introduced me to the open source movement. Refreshing view of the programmer as "creator" in the domain of binary world. Interesting parallels to religion. This book captures the heart and soul of the information age.

the confusion (volume 2)
neal stephenson, 2004

Odalisque: The Baroque Cycle #3 (The Baroque Cycle)

7 reviews
Neal Stephenson

HarperTorch, 2006

Think of this as the version for those with shorter attention spans
Like many of the other reviewers out there, I saw this on the shelves and wondered if it was something new. But it only took a minute to realize it was one of the parts of the previously published first volume: if you look at the table of contents of the first volume, "Odalisque" is the name of the third book in that volume; I could understand some of the complaints of the other reviewers if ...

Cryptonomicon

2 reviews
Neal Stephenson

Arrow Books Ltd, 2000

Encryption, ice cold milk and Captain Crunch
Love the transport in time to the precusor's to IPSec and AES encryption, just not using a VPN connection. If you like encryption, World War II, anti-hero's and a really thick book, this is your cup of tea.

The Diamond Age Collectors Edition
Neal Stephenson

Easton Press, 1995

Masterpiece of Scient Fiction; gound in geniune leatrh,collector's notes by author

Interface

17 reviews
Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George

Spectra, 2005

Early Stephenson
From what I understand, this is a re-release of some early Stephenson work. Its not typical Stephenson as we know, its probably his worst book on that relative scale - which, as folks have pointed out, makes it a much better book than most out there. Yah, the characters don't develop out as much as his recent stuff. But man, his predictions are uncanny - $10 trillion national debt sure sounds ...

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