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Neal Stephenson

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Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.


— Neal Stephenson


#humor

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.


— Neal Stephenson


#life

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.


— Neal Stephenson


#snow #snow

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.


— Neal Stephenson


#guns

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.


— Neal Stephenson


#snow

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.


— Neal Stephenson


#snow

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,


— Neal Stephenson


#kindlehighlight

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.


— Neal Stephenson


#humor #education

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?


— Neal Stephenson


#god #gender

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.


— Neal Stephenson


#science-fiction #sf #death






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In his earlier novels Stephenson deals heavily in pop culture-laden metaphors and imagery and in quick hip dialogue as well as in extended narrative monologues. Since 1984 Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family. A.

His novels have been variously categorized as science fiction historical fiction cyberpunk and "postcyberpunk. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. " Other labels such as "baroque" often appear.

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