Neal Stephenson

30 años del Metaverso, y sumando. En un futuro cercano, los americanos solo destacan haciendo cuatro cosas: música, películas, programas… y reparto de pizza en menos de treinta minutos. En el mundo r

Última entrega de la sorprendente trilogía Criptonomicón.En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y capitán de la marina estadounidense, colabora con Alan Turing y especialistas de Betchely Park en la tarea de descifrar los codigos secretos de las potencias del Eje.Sesenta años mas tarde, la empresa de su nieto y brillante criptohacker, Randy Waterhouse, proyecta crear la Cripta, un paraiso de datos y el mayor exponente de la libertad informatica.Al final, ni siquiera Wagner o el oro del Rhin han de resultar ajenos a la plural y camaleonica trama de Criptonomicon, un tour de force narrativo incomparable, desmesurado y sorprendete. Un hito en la narrativa moderna, con una atrevida mezcla de generos: ciencia ficcion, ucronia y thriller, entre otros, que componen una novela llena de humor e ironia.** Premio Locus 2000Reseña:Este libro es sencillamente inconmensurable. Luis Fonseca

Una atrevida, amena e irónica mezcla de ciencia ficción, ucronía y thriller.El genio matemático Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse colabora en 1942 con Alan Turing y especialistas británicos de Betchely Park para descifrar los codigos secretos de las potencias del Eje.Sesenta años mas tarde, la empresa de Randy, su nieto y brillante criptohacker,proyecta crear un paraiso de datos y exponente de la libertad informatica: la Cripta.Criptonomicon se traslada al escenario belico del Pacifico para plasmar las aventuras del marine Shaftoe en busca de MacArthur, asi como las de Lawrence, con su imaginativo tratamiento matematico de la cualidad y efectos de las eyaculaciones, y las de un Randy enfrentado a las mafias de la politica, la tecnologia y las finanzas.** Premio Locus 2000Reseña: Imagine a Tom Clancy emparejado con William Gibson, con James Michener actuando de comadrona, y uno empieza a hacerse una idea.Seattle Times

Existe todo un empeño por parte de los fabricantes de software en ocultar como funcionan realmente los ordenadores. Las metáforas visuales, las interfaces gráficas simplifican el uso de los PC, pero al precio de que se viva la tecnologia como algo mistificado, magico, sin conexion alguna entre causas y efectos. Por el contrario una corriente que se remonta a los origenes de la informatica personal y a las primeras comunidades de hackers nunca ha dejado de usar la interfaz de la linea de comandos. No por un empeño nostalgico, no por una presentacion elitista, sino por un deseo de libertad, de no renunciar a la creatividad contenida en la produccion y modificacion de los codigos.

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction. THE EARTH WAS A TICKING TIME BOMB. To ensure the survival they had to look beyond its atmosphere. So they became pioneers. Five thousand years later and their progeny form seven distinct races and they must journey to an alien: Earth. A magnificent, visionary work of speculative fiction from a true visionary that will dazzle you with its depth, psychology and awesome imagination.

Narrativa en ingles

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson s most recent novel electrifying and hilarious. but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it s back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

"El gran best-seller ciberpunk de los años noventa Una novela desinhibida y rebosante de ideas que se ha convertido en el texto más popular de la ciencia ficción moderna En el futuro cercano, los am

Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the on-line world to spill over into reality. A fast-talking, internet-addicted mafia accountant is brutally silenced by his Russian employers, and Zula - a talented young T'Rain computer programmer - is abducted and bundled on to a private jet. As she is flown across the skies in the company of the terrified boyfriend she broke up with hours before, and a brilliant Hungarian hacker who may be her only hope, she finds herself sucked into a whirl of Chinese Secret Service agents and gun-toting American Survivalists; the Russian criminal underground and an al-Qaeda cell led by a charismatic Welshman; each a strand of a connected world that devastatingly converges in T'Rain. An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde is an irresistible epic from the unique imagination of one of today's most individual writers.

En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y joven capitán de la marina estadounidense, recibe la orden de colaborar con Bobby Shaftoe en una misión secreta que consiste en descifrar los codigos de las potencias del Eje y evitar que los nazis descubran que la Inteligencia aliada ha interpretado su mitico codigo Enigma. Sesenta años mas tarde, Randy Waterhouse, brillante criptohacker, proyecta la creacion en el sureste asiatico de un paraiso de datos que ha de convertirse en el mayor exponente de la libertad informatica: la Cripta. Cuando los gobiernos y las multinacionales atacan este proyecto, Randy se alia con Amy, la nieta de Shaftoe, para intentar rescatar un submarino nazi que contiene la clave para mantener a flote el sueño de la Cripta. Su estratagema pronto saca a la luz una gigantesca conspiracion y un codigo indescifrable llamado Aretusa. Por primera vez en castellano aparece en un solo volumen la edicion completa del libro mas logrado de Neal Stephenson. Criptonomicon, un tour de force narrativo, una obra profunda y profetica, hipnotica y trepidante. Una obra de arte, producto de una imaginacion iconoclasta y sorprendente.

This is the Word -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the one man is Neal Stephenson, the hacker Hemingway (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

Un complejo y ameno tecnothriller sobre la amenaza de manipulación tecnológica de la democracia. El gobernador Cozzano sufre una apoplejía poco antes de iniciarse el largo camino de las primarias para la nueva eleccion presidencial estadounidense. Como parte del tratamiento, se le propone la implantacion en el cerebro de un novedoso biochip con el que, ademas, estara conectado a un sofisticado sistema de encuestas electoral. De esta forma tiene acceso a la informacion sobre las reacciones, deseos y sentimientos de los electores, que le son comunicados directamente al cerebro, y se convierte inevitablemente en el candidato perfecto. Ante este sofisticado y poderoso desarrollo de la tecnologia, ¿que va a ocurrir con la democracia? ¿Puede ser libre la politica en la nueva era de las omnipresentes tecnologias de la informacion y de las neurociencias?

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction. What would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. But unforeseen 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 at once extraordinary and eerily recognizable. He explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

In this definitive collection of Stephensons 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.One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels - works colossal in vision and mind-boggling in complexity. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the product of a keen and adventurous intellect. Not surprisingly, Stephenson is regularly asked to contribute articles, lectures, and essays to numerous outlets, from major newspapers and cutting edge magazines to college symposia. This remarkable collection brings together previously published short writings, both fiction and nonfiction as well as a new essay (and an extremely short story) created specifically for this volume.Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream (whether people admit it or not); the future of publishing and the origins of his novels. By turns amusing and profound, critical and celebratory, yet always entertaining, Some Remarks offers a fascinating look into the prismatic mind of this extraordinary writer.

La novela que revitalizó el ciberpunk... con unas gotas de sentido del humor. A ambos lados de la autopista de Los Ángeles, las franquicias se suceden unas a otras hasta donde alcanza la vista: las Puertas Perladas del Reverendo Wayne, el Nuevo y Mas Grande Hong Kong de Mr. Lee, Pizzas Cosa Nostra, Inc. de Tio Enzo... El unico respiro que hay en el mar de logos y carteles se encuentra al otro lado de las bien guardadas fronteras de las ciudades estado independientes, cuyos ciudadanos intentan no abandonar nunca. ¿A quien podria extrañar que casi todo el mundo opte por buscar refugio en un universo virtual? El Metaverso es el ultimo reducto de la libertad, el unico lugar donde todo sigue siendo posible sin jugarse la piel. Pero ahora esta siendo amenazado por un nuevo tipo de virus conocido como Snow Crash, un virus que amenaza con desencadenar el infocalipsis... Snow Crash es una de esas raras novelas que marca un relevo generacional: sus paginas destilan la presencia de una voz innovadora que contempla el mundo con ironia desde una perspectiva tan fresca como radical. Es una obra pirotecnica y vertiginosa, guiada por una incontenible pasion de narrar, pletorica de ideas nuevas y que destila un tono complice y socarron en sus todas sus paginas. Una revolucion de un solo libro en la historia reciente del genero.

When you interfere with the past, there's no telling what you might find in your future … In 1851 London's Crystal Palace hosts The Great Exhibition, showcasing the rise of technology and commerce, and alongside it, the decline of magic. Once powerful, now mere myth. Years later, Melisande Stokes, linguistics and languages expert, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy government agent, will rediscover magic and all its power, bringing about the creation of the Department of Diachronic Operations - D.O.D.O. D.O.D.O.'s mission is clear: to develop a device that will send their agents back in time to keep the magic alive … and alter the course of history. Written with genius and complexity, this vividly realised novel will make you believe the impossible, and question the very foundations of the modern world.

You think you know how the world works? Think again. From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world. 1851 England The Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace has opened, celebrating the rise of technology and commerce. With it the power of magic - in decline since the industrial revolution began - is completely snuffed out. The existence of magic begins its gradual devolution into mere myth. 21st Century America Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the uncovering of a distant past. After translating a series of ancient texts, Melisande and Tristan discover the connection between science, magic and time travel and so the Department of Diachronic Operations - D.O.D.O. - is hastily brought into existence.Its mission: to develop a device that will send their agents back to the past, where they can stop magic from disappearing and alter the course of history. But when you interfere with the past, there's no telling what you might find in your future...Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson's work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humour of Nicole Galland's storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places - and times - beyond imagining