NEAL STEPHENSON

Fecha de publicación: 2012 El tercer y último libro de la serie El Sistema del Mundo, volumen tres del Ciclo Barroco. En 1714, tras la derrota inglesa ante los borbones, sir Isaac Newton usa su poder como director de la Casa de la Moneda de Inglaterra para buscar el mítico «Oro de Salomón», que se supone contiene el Mercurio Filosófico ...

The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel ""electrifying"" and ""hilarious"".  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The ...

Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable 'saecular' world.

This is the Word -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the one man is Neal Stephenson, the hacker Hemingway (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (...