The Big U went out of print until 2001, when Stephenson allowed it to be republished after realizing that this book that he considered inferior to his others was being sold at inflated prices for used copies because of its scarcity and collectors ' value.

Stephenson at a book signing in 2004

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 ).

Stephenson attempts to establish The Diamond Age as a " postcyberpunk " book by killing this character early on, while acknowledging the influence of the cyberpunk genre.

As he did in Cryptonomicon, Stephenson highlights the importance of networks and codes, which in Quicksilver occur against a " backdrop of staggering diversity and detail ", writes Mark Sanderson in his review of the book for the Daily Telegraph.

* The Metaweb was once an extensive Quicksilver wiki, including many pages written by Stephenson, about the historical and fictional persons and events of this book.

In the publication of the two novels as a single volume, Stephenson chose to publish the volume as alternating sections between Bonanza and The Juncto, book 4 and 5 respectively.

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

* Long John Silver in the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, was missing a leg, but did not have a peg leg.

* A fictional encryption program from the book Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

* Macdonald, Bill, The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, ( Raincoast, 2001 )-ISBN 1-55192-418-8 This book contains interviews with several Canadian employees of BSC in New York.

* The System of the World ( novel ), a 2005 book by Neal Stephenson

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed ' Bletchley-in-the-Tropics ' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken ( Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming ).

Similarly, in Avery Corman's book The Old Neighborhood ( 1980 ), an upper-middle class white protagonist returns to his birth neighborhood ( Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse ), and learns that even though the folks are poor, Hispanic and African-American, they are good people.

The events of the book, while not to be tied to particular historical events, still describe the sorts of things that will happen until Christ returns.

The fifth book returns to the subject of faith.

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

Ianto goes to London to find work early in the book, but returns unsatisfied ; Owen and Gwilym do the same later.

The man introduces himself as Rynn's father, signs a book for Officer Miglioriti, and returns to his room.

Escaping from them, Martins returns to the hotel, and is immediately taken by cab to the book club.

The ending in the movie, however, differs from that of the book, in which Gruver says " sayonara " to his Japanese girlfriend and returns to the States.

* 1683-Missionary Louis Hennepin returns to France after exploring Minnesota and being held captive by the Dakota to write the first book about Minnesota, Description de la Louisiane

The book follows a group of three humans who are taken aboard the Starship when it crashes on Earth and returns to the planet Blerontin where it was launched, with various subplots including an on-board bomb, a love-triangle between the characters, and an attempt to commit insurance fraud by the investors in the ship.

In both book and movie, Mouche / Lili is tempted by a superficial attraction to a handsome man — an acrobat named Balotte in the book, the magician Marc in the movie — but returns to the puppeteer.

The book series is written only in a semichronological order ; it breaks the continuity during part of the series to focus on the Rat's early career, then returns to " modern-day ".

Finally the book returns to 1713, where Daniel's ship fends off several of Teach's pirate ships.

This book returns to Daniel Waterhouse, who in 1685, has become a courtier to Charles II because of his role as Secretary of the Royal Society.

This third book follows to their conclusion many of the questions underlying Vernon God Little, and returns to the first-person narrative of a young man set apart from his culture, this time in Europe.

One of the phrases Riley coined in the book was the " Disease of More ", stating that " success is often the first step toward disaster " and that defending champions often fail the following season because every player who returns wants more playing time, more shots per game, and more money.

He discovers that this episode was an illusion created by Neferkaptah, and in fear of further retribution, Setne returns the book to Neferkaptah's tomb.

Leda and Gord part at the end of the book as she returns to the Abyss, impersonating Eclavdra in Graz ' zt's service for the sake of higher ideals.

Female Itsuki returns to school after vacation and is upset to find that Male Itsuki has transferred, making the book exchange the last time she ever saw him.

When Norman returns from the dead ( or rather, Europe ) he was able to discredit Urich and the book, going through great effort to clear his name.

In one vignette a university professor returns home and turns on his computer, in the form of a tablet the size of a large-format book.

Before Anita and her sisters return to Hong Kong, she returns the book to Richard, who is recuperating in the hospital.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

and has then gone on to argue, with unimpeachable consistency, that all the obviously non-propagandistic aspects of the book are simply inadvertent `` contradictions ''.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

The other children in the class use this same coloring book and do a fairly good job with things their proper color.

Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Vernon kept an account book with a list of all the establishments that he thought worthy of patronage.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.