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.

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

* Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson ( 2003 )

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

* Neal Stephenson-The Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver ( 2003 ), The Confusion ( 2004 ), The System of the World ( 2004 ))

Jack Shaftoe ( also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L ' Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner ) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2, 686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle.

* Land sailing is featured in book three, Odalisque, of Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, the first part of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner.

After the original Titans disbanded, he joined a band called Great Frog and became a drug addict, a first in DC comics, in an award-winning story in Green Lantern # 85-86 ( Sept. & November 1971 ), part of a classic, 14-issue run by the writer-artist team of Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams.

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 story was dramatised in 1954 for Lux Radio Theatre, with Rennie and Billy Gray recreating their roles and Jean Peters speaking the dialogue of the Patricia Neal character.

Inspired by a thousand-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the " Essentials of Spontaneous Prose " and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.

The " Kree-Skrull War " is a story arc that was written by Roy Thomas, and drawn by Sal Buscema, Neal Adams, and John Buscema.

In 1968, she was written out of the show after complaining that she was given little to do, especially in light of the show's concentration on the love story between young leads Mia Farrow and Ryan O ' Neal.

The film was adapted by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez and Lindy Laub from a story by Jimenez and Laub.

Noted Batman artist Neal Adams first drew the character in an interior story in " The Superman-Batman Revenge Squads " in issue # 175 ( May 1968 ).

Dark Horse Presents returned as an eighty-page anthology comic on April 20, 2011 with all-new stories including a Concrete story by Paul Chadwick, a Mr. Monster story by Michael T. Gilbert, a Crimson Empire story from the Star Wars universe, a new strip called Marked Man by Howard Chaykin, a strip called Blood by Neal Adams ( his first work for Dark Horse ), and a sneak peek of Frank Miller ’ s prequel to 300, Xerxes.

" Jipi and the Paranoid Chip " is a science fiction short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Forbes Magazine's July 7, 1997 issue.

" The Great Simoleon Caper " is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE, Spring 1995 Volume 145, No. 12 ( March 1, 1995 ).

Neal Pollack ( born March 1, 1970 ) is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

Moving to Marvel Comics, he began work as co-artist with Neal Adams on the first Killraven story, seen in Amazing Adventures # 18 in 1973.

The story then switches over to Neal Oliver who works at a warehouse in St. Louis, Missouri, at night on the stocking crew that gets food ready to be delivered to local grocery stores.

Neal relates a story of visiting his grandmother in a nursing home.

In 1999 Feirstein co-scripted The World Is Not Enough with story writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis.

He designed the " metal bikini " for the character Red Sonja, in Savage Tales # 3, Comixscene # 5, and in the first issue of The Savage Sword of Conan and pencilled her first solo story, which was inked by Neal Adams and Ernie Chan.

Howe ( story ), Lex Neal ( story ), and Howard Emmett Rogers ( story ) with uncredited assistance from Al Boasberg and Paul Girard Smith.