Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.

Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.

Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. Lewis, Jon, ed. (2008). Tomorrow through the Past: Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-0270-3.In the beginningDe Lint, Charles (June 2000). "Review of In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line". Books to Look For (column). F&SF. Vol. 98, no. 6. pp. 39–40. Retrieved February 17, 2016.Snow crashHandrahan, Matthew (2015). "Essential Read: Snow Crash". Book Club (column). SciFiNow. Vol. 104. pp. 84–87. Retrieved October 27, 2020.Termination shockRogers, Adam (November 2021). "Apocalypses now". Wired. 29.11: 78–87.