Book One, Stephenson et alia face the challenge of keeping most of them moving without getting too far ahead of the plot of this alternate history of the 13th-century Mongolian Neal Stephenson ...

Critics sometimes gripe that Neal Stephenson's sprawling ... and the sly comedy he wrings from it. Stephenson's cinderblock-sized books are geeky odes to editorial noninterference.

Neal Stephenson has seen the future—and he doesn’t like it. Today’s science fiction, he argues, is fixated on nihilism and apocalyptic scenarios—think recent films such as The Road and TV ...

This is not the case in a Neal Stephenson novel ... Fall; or Dodge in Hell is a book with a lot of explaining to do. As things begin, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast, the billionaire videogame developer we ...

Neal Stephenson’s enthralling new ... “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon.” But the book is also utterly unlike the majority of Stephenson’s work. For one thing, it’s short — a far ...