Or so it seemed.īut awesome ingredients do not always add up to a satisfying dish¹ (as my horrible cook self knows much too well). After all, it had all the necessary ingredients: the pervasive air of nerdy geekiness (or, perhaps, geeky nerdiness), an unexpected take on linguistics, a kick-ass female character, a parallel (virtual) reality, a hefty helping of (admittedly, overexaggerated) satire, and just enough wacky improbable worldbuilding to satisfy my book loving soul.
In addition to Snow Crash, he is the author of Seveneves, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Zodiac, and the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle, among other works.Disliking this book seemed quite impossible.
Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family. Stephenson received his undergraduate degree from Boston University, where he first specialized in physics before switching to geography, finding that this allowed him to spend more time with the university mainframe. Born in 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum), Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired and was the first employee at Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, linguistics, cryptography, philosophy, mythology, and the history of science. Neal Stephenson is an American writer known for works of speculative fiction, which have variously been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and post-cyberpunk.
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