Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.

* Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

* The Megaversity Association for Reenactments and Simulations, in Neal Stephenson's novel The Big U

* In Neal Stephenson's 2004 novel The Confusion, a group of characters are detained and subjected to torture by Spanish religious authorities in 1600's Mexico, prompting one of them to exclaim, " I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).

With Neal Stephenson's permission, Garrett Birkel responded to In the Beginning ... was the Command Line in 2004, bringing it up to date and critically discussing Stephenson's argument.

Emerging themes in the 1990s included environmental issues, the implications of the global Internet and the expanding information universe, questions about biotechnology and nanotechnology, as well as a post-Cold War interest in post-scarcity societies ; Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age comprehensively explores these themes.

* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

In Neal Stephenson's historical fiction novel Quicksilver one of the book's chief figures, Puritan Daniel Waterhouse, appears before an illegally reconstituted Star Chamber tribunal.

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

* ( 2004 ) In Neal Stephenson's The System Of The World, a fictionalized Sir Isaac Newton dies of " gaol fever " before being resurrected by Daniel Waterhouse.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

* Neal Stephenson's series The Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World ), published in 2003 and 2004, deals with the rise of the scientific worldview and the beginnings of modern capitalism in late-17th-and early-18th-century Europe.

** Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

The Winter Queen also plays a seminal role in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle by giving birth to many children.

The " modern-day " segments of Neal Stephenson's 1999 novel Cryptonomicon concern a small group of entrepreneurs attempting to create a data haven.

In June 2012, it was announced that Cornish had been signed as director of a future film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic 1992 novel, Snow Crash for Paramount Studios.

More recently, novels such as Frederik Pohl's The Coming of the Quantum Cats and Neal Stephenson's Anathem explore human-scale readings of the " many worlds " interpretation of quantum mechanics, postulating that historical events or human consciousness spawns or allows " travel " among alternate universes.

* Commander Schoen, a character appearing in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, is to a large extent inspired by Friedman.

Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem was partly inspired by his involvement with the project, to which he contributed three pages of sketches and notes.

* In Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, one of the lead characters, Jack Shaftoe, begins life as a mudlark.

Several characters in Neal Stephenson's trilogy The Baroque Cycle, particularly Quicksilver and The Confusion, play a role in the Monmouth Rebellion and its aftermath.

Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller ( 1988 ) is Neal Stephenson's second novel, which tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters in Boston Harbor.

* In the Neal Stephenson novel The Diamond Age, ubiquitous molecular nanotechology is described to make use of " rod logic " similar to that imagined by Babbage's design for the Analytical Engine.

* Quicksilver ( novel ) by Neal Stephenson, the first volume of his The Baroque Cycle series

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

* Interface ( novel ), by " Stephen Bury " ( Neal Stephenson and " J. Frederick George " ( George Jewsbury ))

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.

George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger published a 1978 novel entitled Thin Air.

Singer-songwriter Tom Waits, a Beat fan, wrote " Jack and Neal " about Kerouac and Cassady, and recorded " On the Road " ( a song written by Kerouac after finishing the novel ) with Primus.

With screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel Horseman, Pass By, it was directed by Martin Ritt and stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal and Brandon deWilde and features Whit Bissell.

In the source novel Horseman, Pass By, the Bannons ' housekeeper Alma is a black woman and her role in the story is somewhat larger ; in the film, Alma is played by Patricia Neal and the part is comparatively small.

* Neal Stephenson-The Big U ( debut novel )

* The Confusion, a 2004 novel by Neal Stephenson

He is perhaps best known for the film adaptations of his work, especially Hud ( from the novel Horseman, Pass By ), starring Paul Newman and Patricia Neal ; the Peter Bogdanovich – directed The Last Picture Show ; James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture ( 1984 ); and Lonesome Dove, which became a popular television mini-series starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.

Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003.

The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, “ somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis .” The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady.

The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, is the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle.

Many listeners and critics have noted the parallels between the storyline of Snow and Neal Morse's own highly-publicized conversion to Christianity.

Following the release of Snow, Neal Morse left the band for a solo career.

* Y. T., a character in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

* Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in the form of a weapons system called Reason

The eponymous Snow Crash of Neal Stephenson's novel is a combination mental / computer virus capable of infecting the minds of hackers via their visual cortex.

* Chapter five includes a description of a " Snow Crash Spectacular parade " based on Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.

It is technically an MMOSG or Casual Multiplayer Online ( CMO ) by definition, though its stated goal was to realize the concept of the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash.

* Snow Crash-a novel by Neal Stephenson which inspired Active Worlds

* Dmitri " Raven " Ravinoff, a character in the Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

The use of Avatar to mean online virtual bodies was popularised by Neal Stephenson in his cyberpunk novel Snow Crash ( 1992 ).< ref >

Parker and Neal worked together to promote Presley, using their own Hank Snow Tour to book him and tour him.

Snow is the sixth studio album of the progressive rock band Spock's Beard, and the final album with main songwriter and vocalist Neal Morse, who left immediately after the release of the album due to his conversion to Christianity.

The term was coined in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world.

There are several works of fiction where the main character delivers pizzas, including Tom Wolfe's novel I Am Charlotte Simmons ( 2004 ), and Neal Stephenson's postcyberpunk novel Snow Crash ( 1992 ), which posits a future in which pizza delivery is organised by the Mafia as one of the US's two major industries.

Anarcho-capitalism also plays a major role in Neal Stephenson's novels Snow Crash and The Diamond Age.

* Reason ( weapon system ), a fictional weapon system from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash

) Others, such as science fiction author Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash, have since conjectured that heroic epics and myths may be rooted in isolated individuals who became self-aware early and could accordingly outmatch and manipulate their fellows.

Planners took inspiration from cyberpunk novels written by Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, including Snow Crash.

The use of virtual globe software was widely popularized by ( and may have been first described in ) Neal Stephenson's famous science fiction novel Snow Crash.