Neal Stephenson
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One man - visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D. - has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert,...
2) Anathem
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Formats
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
867 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
Author
Series
D.O.D.O volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
752 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents. The only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole...
Author
Series
Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xv, 892 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
883 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain...
7) Reamde
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1044 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
452 p. : ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
Description
After the Mongolian invasion of Europe in 1241, the warrior monks known as the Shield Brethren search for a way to overthrow the invaders as Father Rodrigo, thinking he has received a divine prophecy, takes up arms in the name of his Lord.