Bøger af Neal Stephenson

This is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the great minds of the Baroque Age. It is a chronicle of the near-legendary exploits of Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer, known to all as the King of the Vagabonds, as he risks life and limb for fortune and love while slowly going mad from the pox. And it is the story of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals as she reinvents a contentious continent through the newborn power of international finance.

I 1942 får det matematiske geniet Lawrence Waterhouse i oppdrag å hindre at nazistene finner ut at de allierte har knekket deres berømte Enigma-kode. I nåtida forsøker Waterstones barnebarn Randy å skape et sted hvor dekrypterte data kan utveksles uten innblanding.

In this definitive collection of Stephenson's writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century - mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science and technology- under his eclectic and unflinching gaze.

A brilliant and compelling thriller cast in the mould of his cult classic Cryptonomicon, Reamde promises to be Neal Stephenson's most successful and commercial novel to date.

Cult author Neal Stephenson's unstoppable sci-fi classic The future is small. The future is nano . . . And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous. And it isn't Nell's. It was stolen. And now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object. Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed . . . Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Including a cast of characters such as Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, this book shows the ability to get inside a place and time; and more.

Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbour dumping is still a favourite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water.

Kodebrydning under Anden Verdenskrig og på nutidens internet. Parallelle spor, der bindes sammen af jagten på information og guld på tværs af kontinenter og generationer.Med tredje og afsluttende bind når en kompleks fortælling sit klimaks, og læseren kan endelig nyde, hvordan romanens vildtvoksende historier knyttes elegant sammen, og alting går op i en højere enhed.Som i romanens første to bind møder vi de ekstraordinære fingurer Lawrence og Randy Waterhouse, Bobby, Doug og America Shaftoe, Goto Dengo og Enoch Root. I det afsluttende bind erfarer vi, hvordan de klarer deres bestræbelser. Hvordan de allersvanskeligste koder bliver skabt og brudt. Hvordan guld i enorme mængder bliver begravet og genfundet. Hvordan alliancer og sammensværgelser etableres og opløses jorden rundt og på tværs af fronterne. Hvordan fortidens allerværste synder; krig, død og ødelæggelse kan danne grundlag for forsoning og fred i fremtiden.