Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson | |
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 Neal Stephenson in 2019 | |
| Born | Neal Town Stephenson October 31, 1959 Fort Meade, Maryland, U.S. |
| Education | Boston University (BA) |
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| Writing career | |
| Pen name | Stephen Bury (with J. Frederick George) |
| Period | 1984–present |
| Genres | Science fiction, speculative fiction, historical fiction, essays |
| Notable awards | Hugo Prometheus Locus Clarke |
| Website | nealstephenson |
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has 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 (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's chief futurist from 2014 to 2020.