Neal stephenson

• Yes, that was who you think it was. No, thats not Kane from CC. It turns out the guy who wrote Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon is a gamer, and a picky one at that.
(Gamespy.com)
• I know how you people are, so I know after the first 50 words, you stop reading my column and end up mistaking me for columnist Nathaniel Miller at the grocery store. So this week, I want you to know you have a homework assignment. Go to Facebook.
(Odessa American Online)
• Subutai Corporation headed up by long-time fantasy author Neal Stephenson wants to venture into the world of video games.
(Cinema Blend)
• In the aftermath of the fall of the Roman empire in the first millennium CE the door was opened for Europe to be invaded from the East.
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• The popularity of literary and cinematic sci-fi declined in the 1990s. There will always be great sci-fi folks writing (Ian M Banks, Neal Stephenson, Susanna Clarke etc), but advances were tough to find and there was a real drought in Hollywood.
(Daily Telegraph Blogs)
• For example, Neal Stephenson is working with Keith Hjelmstad, an ASU structural engineer, on an idea for a 20-kilometer-tall tower.
(Huffington Post)
• Both events are free.
(Peninsula Daily News)
• He acknowledges its a sensitive subject, but he argues its an important one. Understanding how soldiers die, Stephenson tells NPRs Neal Conan, is central to an understanding of what combat is. And I think we have to engage with it.
(NPR News)