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.

* 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.

DRAUPNIR was revealed as the password to a website that Neal Caffrey and Mozzie use to view their stolen treasure in " Taking Account ", the seventh episode of the third season of White Collar.

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.

The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and Victor S. Miller in 1985.

Stephen Grover Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey to Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland.

Called " Bertie " in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells ( a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer ) and his wife Sarah Neal ( a former domestic servant ).

Reverend Major George Neal began to preach in Niagara in October 1786, and was ordained in 1810 by Bishop Philip Asbury, at the Lyons, New York Methodist Conference.

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 ).

The MVP result was controversial, as Martínez received the most first-place votes of any player ( 8 of 28 ), but was totally omitted from the ballot of two sportswriters, New York's George King and Minneapolis ' LaVelle Neal.

When asked about the result by WEEI radio in January 2012, Martínez said, “ I ’ m not afraid to say that the way that George King and Mr. LaVelle Neal III went about it was unprofessional .”

Another contributor on the Titans offense was fullback Lorenzo Neal, who frequently served as George's lead blocker and was widely considered one of the best blocking backs in the league.

Different nationalities included Wolverine, Aurora, Northstar and Transonic as Canadians ; Colossus and Magik from Russia ; Banshee and Siryn from Ireland ; Gambit who is a Cajun, the original Thunderbird who was an Apache Native American ; Psylocke, Wolfsbane and Chamber from the U. K .; Armor, Surge and Zero from Japan ; Nightcrawler from Germany ; Legion from Israel ; Omega Sentinel, Neal Shaara, Kavita Rao and Indra from India ; Velocidad from Mexico ; Oya from Nigeria ; Primal from Ukraine ; etc.

This was also true of author and actress Fannie Flagg, who chose this pseudonym ; her real name, Patricia Neal, being the name of another well-known actress ; and British actor Stewart Granger, whose real name was James Stewart.

Among the actors who describe Kazan as an important influence in their career were Patricia Neal, who co-starred with Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 ): " He was very good.

Her second marriage was to Ryan O ' Neal's son, Patrick O ' Neal, from 1995 to 2002 ; the union produced two daughters: Sophia ( born 1997 ) and Veronica ( b. 2001 ).

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller