Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.
Born in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum) Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
《七夏娃》中文版分三册推出,其阅读感觉很像在读金庸的“射雕”三部曲。前两册故事联系紧密,到第三册因为中间有5000年的断代,感觉像是另外一个故事了。 因为之前都是在嗜读推理小说,换成这样大部头的硬科幻类小说,是有些不适应的。书中完全没有插图,阅读过程中不但要花很...
點子很好,前2/3也很硬,但是可讀性比較差,太多沒用必要的描寫瞭,逼得我硬生生學會瞭英文略讀
评分史詩級。Dhina見證的那些英雄們一個個死去的情節,讓我流淚不止。Ymir的六人壯舉,Sean孤獨的死撐到最後,Markus的神勇,日本核專傢獻身。。。就連Dhina的第一任男朋友對忍耐號的改造和自殺。。。都哭紅眼瞭。。。為什麼寫死他們啊?他們的基因多好啊,可惜瞭。。。五韆年後的那節情節不重要(想睡Beled),主要是看個作者對人類的力量抱有的篤定和情懷瞭。看的是英文版,長篇纍牘的細節把想象力榨乾瞭。
评分喜歡硬科幻的,推薦這本。期待電影或劇。
评分細節有些囉嗦得過頭瞭,忽略就好。整個故事還是很精彩的。
评分剛讀完part1,技術細節描寫太細緻瞭,原理、外貌、大小數據都有,太適閤拍成電影或電視劇瞭。夢想將來可以把讀過的一些優秀小說都改編成電影,然而我似乎與電影專業又很遙遠。。。 2018 update:太多information dump,讀到空間站生存那段就棄書瞭,還剩800多頁實在讀不下去
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