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Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Category: Fantasy
Erasmas - Raz - is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world by ancient stone, honoured traditions and complex rituals. Three times during history's darkest epochs, the cloistered commun ...Show more
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Since childhood, Erasmus has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable secular world, until the day that a higher power decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an ...Show more
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
This is the latest magnificent creation from the award-winning author of "Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle" trilogy. Erasmas, 'Raz', is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history's darkest epochs, violence has invaded ...Show more
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
More than fifty years after Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse and Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe are assigned to Detachment 2702, a secret cryptographic mission, their grandchildren--Randy and Amy--join forces to create a "data haven" in the South Pacific, only to uncover a massive conspiracy with roots in Deta
Cryptonomicon (PB) by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
In 1942 Waterhouse is assigned to Detachment 2702 on a secret mission to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Shaftoe is the translator. In the present Waterhouse's grandson teams up with Shaftoe's granddaughter they find a massive cons ...Show more
Everything and More : A Compact History of Infinity by Neal (INT) David Foster; Stephenson Wallace
Category: Reference
Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cant ...Show more
Fall - Or, Dodge in Hell- A Novel by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller--Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick--that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded ...Show more
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller--Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick--that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds. In his youth, Ri ...Show more
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
The astonishing new work of imaginative fiction from master storyteller and futurist, Neal Stephenson, author of Reamde, Seveneves and Snow Crash Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, the billionaire founder and chairman of video game company Corporation 9592, was last seen in Neal's Stephenson's 2011 novel Reamde ...Show more
Interface by Neal Stephenson
Category: Fiction
A combination of satire and thriller, this story occurs around the eve of the third millennium. Cozzano, a mid-Western governer has a biochip in his head, wired to a computerized polling system, tracking the mood of the electorate. The prospect of a radio-controlled President is not a good one.
MONGOLIAD BOOK 1 by STEPHENSON NEAL
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century. As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradit ...Show more
MONGOLIAD BOOK 2 by Erik Nicole; Bear Mark; Galland Greg; Teppo Neal; Bear Stephenson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
In the aftermath of the Mongolian invasion of 1241, beleaguered Christians struggle with the presence of a violent horde and a world turned upside down. Apocalyptic fever sweeps through Europe, infecting even the most rational individuals, leaving all to wonder if they are seeing the end times ? or an h ...Show more