Neither novel attracted much critical attention on first publication, but showcased concerns that Stephenson would further develop in his later work. His next novel, Zodiac (1988), is a thriller following a radical environmentalist in his struggle against corporate polluters. Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, is a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland, and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.

Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle with his family. Stephenson studied at Boston University, first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe.

He graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor. Early life īorn on October 31, 1959, in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. Frederick George'), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ('J. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.

His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, historical fiction, essays

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