The Big U

The Big U

Neal Stephenson

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1984

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Stephenson's first novel is now back in print. With a plot that meanders through academic catch-22s; massive, sonic stereo wars; neon-worshiping cults; and a campus-wide civil war, this scathing send-up of American college life presages the rise and fall of one of the most imaginative novelists writing today.
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Neal Stephenson

In a literary landscape filled with genre walls and boundaries, Neal Stephenson has spent his entire career walking straight through them—sometimes with a sword, sometimes with a quantum computer, often with both. Whether he's dissecting cryptography during World War II or reimagining the architecture of a metaverse…

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