Neal Stephenson

A technology and science fiction writer, Neal Stephenson specializes in the irreverent post-cyberpunk genre, fusing mythologies with such themes as memetics computer viruses, nanotechnology, and codebreaking. In 1996, his novel, The Diamond Age, won a Hugo. He's also written under the name Stephen Bury-political thrillers that he expected would subsidize his science fiction writing.

Born in Maryland in 1959, Stephenson's father is a professor of electrical engineering, his mother worked in a biochemistry lab. Both of his grandfathers were scientists. It is perhaps why science comes so naturally to him-to say nothing of his own degree in geography from Boston University.

When he isn't writing, he advises a company that is developing a manned suborbital launch system.

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