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 with such themes as Babylonian mythology. He has written two subsequent novels [The Diamond Age]
? which deals with an alternative history and
nanotechnology, and Cryptonomicon
?, a novel which derives its title from the
Necronomicon, a a fictional work detailed within the works of the writer [H P Lovecraft]
?, which is concerned with computing, and codebreaking.
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