Science fiction author. His cyberpunk novel Snow Crash was an influential amalgam of social satire, video-game action, and digressively complex musings on the nature of intelligence and computers.
Works include:
- Books
- The Big U
- Zodiac
- Snow Crash
- The Diamond Age, a nanotechnology novel heavily influenced by K. Eric Drexler
- Cryptonomicon
- In The Beginning Was The Command Line
- The Baroque Cycle
- Quicksilver, Fall 2003
- Short Stories
- Spew Wired, 1994
- The Great Simoleon Caper Time, 1995
- Jipi and the Paranoid Chip Forbes, July 7, 1997
- Interviews
- DREAMS & NIGHTMARES OF THE DIGITAL AGE Time, February 3, 1997
- Deep Code Salon, May 19, 1999
- Cryptomancer Locus Online, August, 1999
- A Conversation With Neal Stephenson SF Site, September 1999
- Neal Stephenson's message in code Guardian, October 14, 1999
- Neal Stephenson Decodes Cryptonomicon cyberhaven.com, 1999
- Neal Stephenson and the Sci-Fi Ghetto onmagazine.com, June 7, 2000