Primarily a science-fiction writer, who, although principally writing about computer and computer-related technologies such as
nanotechnology, does not belong to the
cyberpunk school of writers such as
William Gibson and
Bruce Sterling. Although he wrote earlier novels such as the eco-thriller Zodiac
?, he came to fame in the early
1990s with the deeply funny novel Snowcrash
? which fuses hi-tech themes with
Babylonian mythology. He has written two subsequent novels [The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer]
? which deals with a future with extensive
nanotechnology, and
Cryptonomicon, a novel concerned with computing and codebreaking from the second World War codebreakers to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. (Though the title is reminiscent of the
Necronomicon, a fictional work detailed within the works of the writer
H. P. Lovecraft, Stephenson has stated that this is because he liked the sound of the name; he had not read any Lovecraft at that time, and the novel has no connection with Lovecraft's themes.)
Works:
fiction:
- [The Big U]? (1984)
- Zodiac? (1988)
- [Snow Crash]? (1992)
- [The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer]? (1995)
- Cryptonomicon (1999)
non-fiction:
He has also written fiction as [Stephen Bury]? together with J. Frederick George - at least two novels, Cobweb and Interface
Links: http://www.cryptonomicon.com
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