![]() ![]() ![]() He contributed articles to Wired, and some of his non-fiction was collected in Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing (2012). Later that year he published In the Beginning… Was the Command Line, an often humorous non-fiction commentary on computers and culture that originally appeared in shortened form on the Internet. In 1999 he broke new ground with Locus Award winner Cryptonomicon, his massive, Pynchonesque novel of history and cryptography, which proved quite popular with SF fans. Concurrently he produced the Hugo and Locus Award-winning novel The Diamond Age (1995). He wrote two thrillers in collaboration with his uncle, George Jewsbury, under the name Stephen Bury: Interface (1994) and Cobweb (1996). The successful and influential Snow Crash (1992) is a cyberpunk classic, and made him a star in the SF world. His first novel The Big U, a college thriller with SF elements, appeared in 1984, followed by Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller (1988). In 1981 he graduated from Boston University with a BA in geography and a minor in physics. Neal Town Stephenson was born Octoin Fort Meade MD, and grew up in Iowa. ![]()
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