Books with author Pat Stephenson

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anatham, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain.…Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown…to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

A delightful book about cats and kittens, this short and sweet book, written in poetry fashion in the 1880s, is charmingly illustrated in vivid colors. Entertaining for cat lovers, and those who enjoy poetry about the, it is suitable for children through adult, whether 8 or 80 years old.The illustrations will be in vivid color on all Kindle Fire devices,and those devices that support color. (Gray-scale on eReaders.)

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon was first published in 1999 to immense critical and popular acclaim. An ambitious, absorbing account of war, conspiracy, and code breaking, it represented a huge step forward for a gifted writer whose previous creations included the Hugo Award-winning The Diamond Age and the virtual reality classic, Snow Crash.The events of Cryptonomicon take place along two parallel time tracks: the Second World War and the present day. The earlier segments feature, among others, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young math prodigy tasked with concealing the fact that Allied forces have successfully broken Germany's infamous Enigma code. Protagonists of the latter section include Randy Waterhouse, Lawrence's grandson, a computer hacker helping to construct an autonomous 'data haven' in the Sultanate of Kirakuta. Together, these two narratives successfully illuminate two different worlds, one of which grew directly out of the struggles and achievements of the other.Sometimes horrific, frequently hilarious, densely packed with information on a wide variety of subjects, from cryptanalysis to treasure hunting to the proper method of eating Cap'n Crunch, Cryptonomicon is a genuine modern epic. On one level, it is an astonishing, wholly original portrait of a world at war. On another, it is a provocative meditation on the ways that science and technology help shape--and alter--the course of human history. A work of great erudition and equally great imaginative power, it is--and will remain--one of the significant literary accomplishments of the modern era.

Matt, Mason, and Madison were normal children with a home, family, and pets. Follow them on this happy yet sad journey. Children do not understand when someone they love is suddenly taken from them. How can we expect them to understand and how can we help them? In life we experience love, joy, and happiness as well as grief, fear, pain, and sadness. When we lose someone we love it is important to remember they will continue to live forever in our hearts and through our memories forever.

Follow-up to the author's cyberpunk classic, "Snow Crash," involves a "brilliant nanotechnologist who breaks the rigid moral code of this tribe, the neo-Victorians," & illegally copies an interactive device designed to raise girls to think for themselves...which falls into the hands of a gang of young street urchins, where a young girl sets out to reprogram humanity. Bantam Spectra advance uncorrected proof from 1995 precedes the First Hardcover edition & is thus considered the true first by collectors. Same cover art as the 1995 first hardcover.

Mass Market Paperback with 1152 pgs. Copyright 1999. Cryptonomicon is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure..But that's only half of it. A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers, secrets, gold, spies, codemakers and codbreakers, conspiracies, power; pirates, prisoners, lovers and great escapes from one of the boldest imaginations in comtempory fiction.