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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Baroque Cycle

1 - Quicksilver (Sep-2003)
2 - The Confusion (Apr-2004)
3 - The System of the World (Oct-2004)

Bomb Light

1 - Polostan: Volume One of Bomblight (Oct-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Foreworld Saga

1 - The Mongoliad: Book One (May-2012)
2 - The Mongoliad: Book Two (Sep-2012)
3 - The Mongoliad: Book Three (Mar-2013)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



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    The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, ...



  • Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbor dumping is still a favorite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangamon Taylor is Boston's modern-...



  • Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and j...



  • Set in twenty-first-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life--and the entire future of humanity--is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....



  • CRYPTONOMICON is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high-tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure ... But that's only half of it." --USA Today A remarkable epi...



  • This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist...



  • Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and w...



  • In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize o...



  • England, 1714. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a ne...






  • For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandone...



  • Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in whic...



    • It is eleven years after the events of the Jurassic Park movies and CIA agent Daniel Espinoza is working undercover to infiltrate infamously brutal Nicaraguan drug lord Gabriel Cazares' drug ring. Cazares and his henchmen have taken over Isl...



  • The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion....



  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), th...



  • In this, the riveting second installment in Stephenson and company’s epic tale, we witness the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most resilient survivors. The Shield Brethren,...



  • The final book of the Mongoliad trilogy from Neal Stephenson and company tells the gripping personal stories of medieval freedom fighters to form an epic, imaginative recounting of a moment in history when a world in peril relied solely on the courag...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anatham, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic―a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the wo...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Anatham," "Reamde," and "Cryptonomicon" comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic -- a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. "What would happen ...



  • A disgraced outcast samurai living in early seventeenth-century Manila, Kitazume is contemplating ritual suicide when a divine force (of a sort) intervenes: Luis, a rogue Jesuit priest and Kitazume’s longtime friend. At Luis’s insistence, the sam...






  • From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of t...



  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller -- Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick -- that unfolds in the near future, in para...




  • Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat wa...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the At...


Award-Winning Books by Neal Stephenson

Anathem
2009 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Cryptonomicon
2000 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The Diamond Age
1996 Hugo Award -- Novel
1996 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The System of the World
2005 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Neal Stephenson has published 24 books.

The next book by Neal Stephenson, Polostan: Volume One of Bomblight, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Neal Stephenson, The Big U, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Neal Stephenson has 2 series.