Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.

Jaynes's ideas have also influenced writers such as William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Robert J. Sawyer, Philip K. Dick, and Ken Wilber.

* In The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson diamond can be constructed by simply building it out of carbon atoms.

Neal Town Stephenson ( born October 31, 1959 ) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

* Neal Stephenson at authors @ Google, September 12, 2008.

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In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form ( November 1999, ISBN 0-380-81593-1 ).

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

* 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!

* 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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* Neal Stephenson-The Big U ( debut novel )

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

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.

* 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.