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The Big U

The Big U

by Neal Stephenson

LiteratureCollege studentsFictionTerrorismFiction, general
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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 Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

Themes & subjects

LiteratureCollege studentsFictionTerrorismFiction, generalFiction, humorous, general

About the author

Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson

31 October 1959

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as *Wired*. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developi…

Author

Neal Stephenson

Pages

308

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN

9780061568633

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