See also: Stephenson

Neal Stephenson (born the October 31st 1959 with Strong Meade, Maryland) is an American author of Science-fiction . Some of its books gained the Prix Hugo.

Although he wrote earlier of the novels like the éco-thriller Zodiac , it is the novel the virtual Samurai ( Snow Crash ), where he speak about subjects varied like the Métavers, Even S, the Computer virus S and the Mythologie sumérienne, which made it famous in the years 1990.

He also wrote the Age of diamond ( The Diamond Age ), being located in a universe néo-victorien and Steampunk where the Nanotechnologie S took a very important place, and Cryptonomicon , where he tells in parallel the history of the cryptanalystes during the Second world war and that of data processing specialists wanting to set up a virtual Paradis.

The work of Stephenson since Old Diamond (1995), which announces as of the first pages the final end of the movement Cyberpunk, did not cease moving away from the traditional science fiction. Starting from Cryptonomicon , inspired by the work of Georges Perec, Stephenson sets up a coherent universe which moves away by certain “details” from our universe.

From 2003 to 2004, it publishes its “cycle baroque”: Quicksilver , The Confusion and The System off the World , a monumental fresco of more than 3  000 pages which recalls the secret history of science at the 17th century.

With the cycle baroque, it is time itself which becomes the theater of a science fiction with wrong way, a chronological and paradoxical space, which mixes the Fantastique as well, the novel dumasien that the theories of Fernand Braudel over “long time”.

Neal Stephenson has also coécrit two novels under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury with J. Frederick George.

Works

Fiction

• Panic at the university! (2004) ( The big U (1984))
• Zodiac (1988) ( Zodiac: Year Eco-Thriller (1988))
• the virtual Samurai (1992)
• Interface (1994) under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury coécrit with J. Frederick George
• New: Spew (1994)
• New: The Great Simoleon To wrap (1995)
• the diamond Age (1995)
• The Cobweb (1996) under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury coécrit with J. Frederick George
• New: Jipi and the paranoid chip (1997)
• Cryptonomicon (1999)
• Volume 1: the Code Enigma
• Volume 2: the Network Kinakuta
• Volume 3: Golgotha

• the cycle baroque :

• Quicksilver (2003)
• The Confusion (2004)
• The System off the World (2004)

Tests & Articles

• Smiley' S people (1993)
• In the Kingdom off Mao Beautiful (1994)
• Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)
• Total Neighborhood Watch (1998)
• (1999)
• Turn One, Tune In, Veg Out NewYork Times, June 17th, 2005
• It' S All Geek To Me NewYork Times, March 18th, 2007

Rewards obtained

• 1996: Price Locus of the best science-fiction novel for the diamond Age
• 1996: Hugo Price of the best novel for the diamond Age
• 1996: Price SF Chronicle of the best novel for the diamond Age
• 1996: Second Price John Wood Campbell Memorial for the diamond Age
• 1997: Grand Prix of Imaginary the of the best foreign novel for the virtual Samurai
• 2000: Locus price of the best science-fiction novel for Cryptonomicon
• 2001: Ignotus price of the best foreign novel for the virtual Samurai
• 2004: Price Arthur C. Clarke of the best novel for Quicksilver
• 2005: Locus price of the best science-fiction novel for The System off the World
• 2005: Prometheus price of the best novel for The System off the World

External bonds

• Official site
• List of the rewards obtained

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