A while back, I realized that it was fairly difficult to actually find Neal Stephenson's stuff on the 'net. Sure, his novels are everywhere (even The Big U, since it was finally put back in print to stop the old edition from being sold for several hundred dollars a pop), but his short fiction and non-fiction is as good or better...
Anyway, here they are. Enjoy.
- Hack the Spew, a short story published in Wired Magazine in October 1994
- In the Kingdom of Mao Bell, an article in Wired Magazine about China and the 'net, from February 1994
- The Great Simoleon Caper, a story in Time Magazine about a new monetary system, from Spring 1995
- Mother Earth Mother Board, a long article in Wired Magazine about laying wire all across the world, from December 1996
- Jipi and the paranoid chip, a story about genetic programming in Forbes Magazine, from July 1997.
- In the Beginning was the Command Line, an essay on Windows, Macs, Linux, and
the history of computing, from March 1999
- Local mirror
- Also available in dead-tree format
- Why I am a Bad Correspondent, on why Neal Stephenson shouldn't be contacted. (Personally, I learned how aggressive he is about this at a book signing.)
Novels
I'm not actually giving them to you, but here's a list, with appropriate Amazon links (maybe not the best prices, but it's info):
- The Big U
- Zodiac
- Snow Crash
- The Diamond Age
- Cryptonimocon
- The Baroque Cycle
- Book One: QuickSilver - released on September 23, 2003.
- Book Two: The Confusion, released on April 13, 2004.
- Book Three: The System of the World, to be released on September 21, 2004.
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