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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 Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver a story of d ' Artagnan's death is related by one of the characters, Half-Cocked Jack.
The Independent places emphasis on the comparisons between the story that evolves in Quicksilver and Stephenson's earlier novel Cryptonomicon, with the former " shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called ' serious ' fiction.
His late 17th-century / early 18th-century exploits as a street urchin, mercenary soldier, vagabond, errand-boy, merchant, galley-slave, pirate, petty despot, spy, coiner, and terrorist in the employ of King Louis XIV are the subject, in the world of Stephenson's epic, not only of much of the text proper but also of widely-popular picaresque novels read by various characters in the story.
William Conrad, who had starred as Leiningen in a 1948 adaptation of Stephenson's story for the radio program Escape, appears in the film as a district commissioner.

Stephenson's and Great
It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Dial Cottage, on Great Lime Road.
Near to Haversham, along the Ouse towards Wolverton, is the Wolverton Railway Viaduct of a ' typical ' Stephenson's design, carrying the West Coast Main Line over the river Great Ouse.

Stephenson's and which
The museum is located within the Stephenson Memorial Hall ( which also incorporates the Pomegranate Theatre, formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre ) and adjacent to Stephensons Place, located roughly mid distance between Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and his resting place in Trinity Church.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.
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.
In a conversation with Miranda, one character tells her that the nation-states of the world collapsed when electronic communications started using an untraceable relay system that made it impossible to enforce taxes on online transactions ( which was later used as a plot element in another of Stephenson's works, the 1999 novel Cryptonomicon ).
Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem was partly inspired by his involvement with the project, to which he contributed three pages of sketches and notes.
One of Stephenson's few failures was his design of the Dee bridge, which collapsed under a train.
Quicksilver operates in the same fictional universe as Stephenson's earlier novel Cryptonomicon, in which descendants of Quicksilver characters Shaftoe and Waterhouse appear prominently.
A 2003 interview in Newsweek quotes Stephenson's belief that " science fiction ... is fiction in which ideas play an important part.
She mentions Stephenson's poor writing and his lack of knowledge of the literary tradition, which she considers to be because " the greatest influences upon Stephenson's work have been comic books and cartoons ".
* Lewis, Peter R, ( 2007 ) Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847, Tempus, which describes many key investigations made by the Inspectorate.
The train engine " De Snelheid " was the twin of the Amsterdam " Arend ", which along with the carriages, were designed by Stephenson's apprentice, the English rail engineer Thomas Longridge Gooch of R. B.
In 1825 the Act of Parliament was obtained for a " railway or tramroad " to be propelled by " stationary or locomotive steam engines ," which was remarkably prescient, considering few people considered steam locomotives to be feasible, and George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway was barely open in far-away County Durham.
In England, it had developed from the 2-2-2 design of Stephenson's first Long Boiler locomotive, around 1840, which he had altered to place two pairs of wheels at the front with the outside cylinders between them to improve stability.
This configuration, which became very popular during the 1830s, was commonly called the Planet type after the first locomotive, Robert Stephenson's Planet of 1830.
Of a similar design was Stephenson's earlier work on the Hetton Colliery Railway which was completed in 1822.
After a sustained search across the country, in 1959 the Society's attention was drawn to the then derelict limestone quarry at Crich in Derbyshire, from which members of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society were recovering track from Stephenson's mineral railway for their pioneering preservation project in Wales.
This configuration was introduced in 1834 on Robert Stephenson's ' Patentee locomotive ' but it was later popularly named Jenny Lind, after the Jenny Lind locomotive which in turn was named after the popular singer.
Porthmadog grew rapidly, but the scheme for Porthdinllaen Harbour foundered, superseded by Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits, which opened up the route to Ireland via Holyhead.
Johnson's Division, alone, captured 3, 500 prisoners in the action at Stephenson's Depot, and this is not surprising, since this is the only major engagement of the war in which an entire Division column was attacked at night while route-marching on a road.

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He also featured in the charity's inaugural live stage show, both as a stand-up and portraying a willing ' victim ' in his partner Pamela Stephenson's act of sawing a man in half to create two dwarves.

Stephenson's and Metaverse
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.
It appears to be set in a United States that precedes the events in Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, using an early version of his Metaverse.
Stephenson's Metaverse appears to its users as an urban environment, developed along a single hundred-meter-wide road, the Street, that runs the entire 65536 km ( 2 < sup > 16 </ sup > km ) circumference of a featureless, black, perfectly spherical planet.

Stephenson's and seen
Stephenson's High Level Bridge was designed after, but completed before his equally innovative Britannia Bridge ( constructed 1846-50 ) over the Menai Strait ; it can be seen as a second and more elegant version of the Britannia Bridge, and was to influence Isambard Kingdom Brunel in his design of the Royal Albert Bridge ( 1855 ; constructed 1859 ) across the River Tamar at Saltash.

Stephenson's and Snow
* Rat Things in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.
Snow Crash can be considered to be the first expression of Stephenson's mature style.
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.
* 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.
* In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash skateboard Kouriers like Y. T.
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
Fictional descriptions of memetic engineering include Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation Trilogy ( New York: Bantam Books, 1991 ), George Gurdjieff's artificial mythology Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( New York: Penguin USA, 1999 ); Neil Stephenson's novels Snow Crash ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1993 ) and The Diamond Age ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1996 ); and Robert W. Chambers ' unearthly The King in Yellow ( Buccaneer Books, 1996 ) tome, which influenced seminal horror author H. P. Lovecraft.
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.

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