41. Deep Code - Fiction - Salon.com Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software. http://www.salon.com/books/int/1999/05/19/stephenson/

Hot Topics Our Picks: Movies 2010 Elections U.S. Economy ... Our Picks Follow Books: News War Room Joan Walsh Glenn Greenwald ... About Salon Store Communities Letters Open Salon The Well Table Talk ... Terms of Service OAS_AD('Top'); Editor: Updated: Today Topic: Fiction Wednesday, May 19, 1999 12:00 ET Deep code Neal Stephenson talks about the history of secrecy, the role of equations in art and the glory of open-source software. By Andrew Leonard T o make a sweeping, possibly unfair generalization about an entire swath of humanity, computer geeks come in at least two distinct subspecies. One is familiar from popular culture the unkempt, hairy, paunchy recluse lacking in social graces. An ugly stereotype, to be sure, but these people do exist. Less well-known is the second kind of geek, the kind of guy Julius Caesar feared the lean and hungry geek. These geeks come in compact packages, thin and wiry. They sport close-shaved goatees rather than long hair and rabbinical beards. They regard the world with blazingly intense eyes, taking in everything, evaluating it, wondering how to fix it. These are the visionaries, the geeks who don't like to waste their time doing unimportant, boring stuff. Their impatience is reflected physically: Their bodies shiver with a nervous, tightly contained energy, just waiting to explode into the "flow" of all-night coding sessions, or, in the case of Neal Stephenson, 900-page novels. Lean and hungry geeks tend to be ambitious, and "Cryptonomicon," Stephenson's latest book, fits the bill it's an insanely ambitious techno-thriller/historical novel that critics are mentioning in the same breath as Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow." It's being labeled Stephenson's "crossover" book, mainly because it doesn't fit neatly into the same science-fiction slot as his last two novels, "Snowcrash" and "The Diamond Age." But Stephenson hasn't actually left his home territory. If anything, the truth is the opposite. "Cryptonomicon" is clear proof of Stephenson's ongoing intention to delve ever deeper into the heart of the digital era, to lay out in detail both excruciating and poetic the awesome influence the computer has exerted on the 20th century.

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43. Ciphergoth.org: Problems With Bruce Schneier's "Solitaire" Describes some problems with the playing card encryption algorithm, includes an implementation in C. http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/

ciphergoth.org Cryptology Problems with Bruce Schneier's "Solitaire" Readers of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" will be familiar with the cipher " Solitaire " (called "Pontifex" in the book), which was designed by cryptologist Bruce Schneier specifically for the purposes of the book. It is intended to be the first truly secure hand cipher, and requires only a pack of cards for encryption and decryption. As yet, the technical information about the design of the cipher has not been made available, but I decided to go investigating, and I've now written a fast "C" implementation of the cipher suitable for collecting statistics about the CPRNG at its heart. I have found two interesting facts: The CPRNG state machine is not reversible, contrary to what the operational notes claim: the initial step in which a joker is moved to the top if it is on the bottom cannot be reversed. This is surprising since non-reversible CPRNGs tend to have shorter periods and can more easily exhibit bias. And indeed, the output of the CPRNG is very biased. The output of each step of the CPRNG is a number from to 25; you would expect successive outputs to be the same around one time in 26, but my experiments show that the frequency is closer to 1/22.5.

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45. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson General information, review of, and links to other reviews of Cryptonomicon. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/stephenn/crypto.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - fiction Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: Cryptonomicon Author: Neal Stephenson Genre: Novel Written: Length: 918 pages Availability: Cryptonomicon - US Cryptonomicon - UK Cryptonomicon - Canada Cryptonomicon - Deutschland Cryptonomicon - France - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: A- : a big, broad, ambitious, well-told entertainment See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer Entertainment Weekly A Lev Grossman Newsweek A Steven Levy The NY Times Book Rev. B+ Dwight Garner TLS A- Paul Quinn The Village Voice A- Julian Dibbell The Washington Post A- John Schwartz Wired A Craig Engler Review Consensus Minor quibbles about it being an uneven (and unwieldy) book, some disappointment regarding the ending, but otherwise fairly enthusiastic in their praise. From the Reviews "It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes historyas well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek." - Lev Grossman, Entertainment Weekly

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47. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: An Overview Author biography, student essays, social themes, religion, technology, themes, characterization, setting, structure and plot. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/cpace/scifi/ns/snowcrashov.ht

48. Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash (2008 HB) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! Limited edition by Subterranean Press Cover art by Patrick Arrasmith This photo was taken on May 18, 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdobie/2502642028/

49. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson General information, review of and links to other reviews of Snow Crash. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/stephenn/snowcrash.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - fiction Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: Snow Crash Author: Neal Stephenson Genre: Novel Written: Length: 468 pages Availability: Snow Crash - US Snow Crash - UK Snow Crash - Canada - France Snow Crash - Deutschland - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: B+ : an entertaining read, with many clever ideas, decently presented See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer New Scientist A David Barrett The NY Times Book Rev. B The Washington Post John Clute From the Reviews "Mr. Stephenson unwisely lets the narrative bog down in a series of lectures that read like Umberto Eco without the charm. But the bang-up ending gets the priorities just right; in cyberpunk, faster is better." - The New York Times Book Review "This is cyberpunk as it ought to be, and almost never is." - David Barrett, New Scientist

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51. Slashdot | Snow Crash General information and archive of a large discussion forum about the book. http://slashdot.org/books/99/10/18/1049244.shtml

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53. Review: Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Anders Jacobsen's Blog) Review of the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/09/30/review_neal_stephenson_sn

Anders Jacobsen's blog ... because the Internet changes your life... Main September 30, 2002 Review: Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is an interesting science fiction story about a swordfighting hacker working as a freelance information gatherer in a over-commercialized, dystopian future society ruled by commercial and criminal franchise operations (like "Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong" and "The Mafia" (marketed with friendly Uncle Enzo as the saviour of modern society)). Although sometimes slightly over the tech-overdose level (I'm a techie myself, but metaphors a la "operating systems of society" sometimes go too far) it presents an intriguing plot mixing religious, commercial and Goverment conspiracies. If you have no interests in computers what so ever, stay away - this book was unfortunately not written for you. If you are interested in an alternative outlook on what a "3D Internet" may look like in an alternative future, check it out... Sponsored links Related Entries Mini-review: ''Down and out in the Magic Kingdom'' May 13, 2003

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55. The Power Of Language In Snow Crash And Babel 17 An essay by Tracy Seneca written in the spring of 1994. Compares the impact of language in several popular science fiction novels. http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f93/students/tracy/tracy_midterm.html

The Power of Language in Snow Crash and Babel 17 Tracy Seneca LIS 296A Impact of New Information Technologies Spring 1994 NOTICE The issue of language has been a frequent theme in science fiction. It is most often an issue in works concerning contact with alien races and the impact that alien languages have upon humans, or how language influences the outcome of contact. Sometimes, such as in the Robert Heinlein's classic Stranger in a Strange Land , learning an alien language has the power to transform our understanding of the world. With the many opportunities to examine the power of language in science fiction, this theme is rarely at the core of the plot. Authors often dismiss language problems between alien races; a silly example would be Douglas Adam's proposed method of placing a small fish in one's ear as a universal translator, but even more serious books tend to overlook the potential role of language. Upon reading Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash , I was struck by the crucial and fascinating role that language plays in the book. Here, Stephenson addresses the origin and power of language, in the sense that the language examined in the book has incantational or magical qualities. He also addresses the myth of Babel, and the notion that we all shared one primal language, a language that might reappear. I have seen these themes in other works, such as Leslie Marmon Silko's book Ceremony , and her short story, "Storyteller". In

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57. Wired 4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth . Article by Neal Stephenson. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//4.12/ffglass.html?person=neal_stephenson&top

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59. Diamond Geezer Dark-eyed and intense, with a dry sense of humour, Neal Stephenson has been called the Quentin Tarantino of post-cyberpunk science fiction . Mary Branscome uncovered him at a Kensington hotel during a promotion tour for his most recent novel, The Diamond Age . http://www.spesh.com/lee/ns/sfx.html

SFX magazine #8 Jan 1996 / SFX Profile: Neal Stephenson "The new William Gibson" Diamond Geezer His books are multi-layered adventures, mixing tomorrow's technology with yesterday's archetypes to create one of contemporary SF's most convincing visions of the future. Dark-eyed and intense, with a dry sense of humour, Neal Stephenson has been called "the Quentin Tarantino of post-cyberpunk science fiction." Mary Branscome uncovered him at a Kensington hotel during a promotion tour for his most recent novel, The Diamond Age... Neal Stephenson has only written four-and-a-half novels (the half being Interface , a collaboration with his uncle which went out under the pen-name "Stephen Bury"), and not all of them pure SF, but he's already been called - by Bruce Sterling, no less - "the hottest science fiction writer in America." His breakthrough came, of course with Snow Crash , probably the most successful SF novel of 1993 and 1994 put together, and the book that established him as the sort of trendy, must-read author who gets his stories published in Wired and Time magazines.

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