Neal Stephenson News, Pictures & Buzz

Form N-PX DNP SELECT INCOME FUND For: Jun 30  StreetInsider.com

List: Georgia running backs rated 4 or 5 stars since 2000  Atlanta Journal Constitution

Stanley Cup Playoffs wrap up: Hat tricks for everyone!  Broad Street Hockey

NHL's Top Stats, Best Highlights, Updated Playoff Picture from Aug. 3 Results  Bleacher Report

NTPGA Juniors: Lindale's Luke Emerson wins East Texas Summer Area golf tournament  Tyler Morning Telegraph

Five Genre-Jumping Masterpieces | Tor.com  tor.com

The Invisible Dystopia  Reason

Writer Neal Stephenson Thinks We’ve Gotten Dystopia All Wrong  The Wall Street Journal

The Digital Land Grab  Propmodo

The Metaverse Is Coming And It’s A Very Big Deal  Forbes

The 2020 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List  War on the Rocks

How to avoid a techno-apocalypse brought on by the internet  New Scientist News

An epic exodus from Earth  Cascadia Weekly

Magic Leap bet big on holograms — and paid the price  The Verge

Where Is the Metaverse to Help Us Through the Pandemic Era?  ExtremeTech

The potential and the pitfalls of medical AI  The Economist

Escape someplace new with these 6 paperbacks  GazetteNET

New in Paperback: ‘Mistress of the Ritz’ and ‘No Visible Bruises’  The New York Times

Rocket to other worlds with 13 science fiction and fantasy books  National Geographic

Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash is being made into a TV Series  Goodereader

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Can anyone give me a detailed summary of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? Thank you!

I am wondering why the metaverse is more important to hackers than business people? What obvious advantages do hackers have over the average business class? How is this relative to their ability to cope with real life and live within the law. I have read the first 20 chapters where these answers can be found and I either cant find them or I missed them. Either way I need help maybe chapters these can be found in atleast? Help if you can thank you!

I'm trying to get into Neal Stephenson. I love sci-fi and I'm a huge fan of cyber punk and speculative fiction. Which book should I read first? I think I want to hold off on the Baroque Cycle as it is a pretty big time investment with all 3 books. I do plan on reading them eventually but I would rather read one of his stand-alone novels first to get a feel for his writing style. I don't know which book to read first. I've heard that Cryptonomicon is incredibly popular with his fans. The Diamond Age won the Hugo and Locus awards and is highly acclaimed, would this be the best place to start? I've also heard great things about Anathem and Snow Crash. Which book would be the best introduction to his body of work? Thanks!

I typically read science fiction / historical fiction / "might be someday in the not too distant future" fiction. I'm wondering if anyone who knows Stephenson and Gibson could recommend another author who's work is similar to theirs. Thanks much.