FICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
"Who'll prevail? We don't know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson's knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarn--most geeky, and full of satisfying mayhem."
Who lives by the joystick dies by the joystick: Noir futurist Stephenson (
Anathem, 2008, etc.) returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 2008
"Light on adventure, but a logophilic treat for those who like their alternate worlds big, parodic and ironic."
A sprawling disquisition on "the higher harmonics of the sloshing" and other "polycosmic theories" that occupy the residents of a distant-future world much like our own.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2004
"Learned, violent, sarcastic, and profound: a glorious finish to one of the most ambitious epics of recent years."
FICTION
Released: April 13, 2004
"Packed with more derring-do than a dozen pirate films and with smarter, sparklier dialogue than a handful of Pulitzer winners, this is run-and-gun adventure fiction of the most literate kind."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2003
"An incorrigible showoff, Stephenson doesn't know when to stop, but that's a trifle compared to his awe-inspiring ambition and cheeky sense of humor."
FICTION
Released: May 4, 1999
Stephenson's prodigious new yarn (after The Diamond Age, 1995, etc.) whirls from WWII cryptography and top-secret bullion shipments to a present-day quest by computer whizzes to build a data haven amid corporate shark-infested waters, by way of multiple present-tense narratives overlaid with creeping paranoia.
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