Author: nealstephenson
A #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers “an endlessly inventive and absorbing story” (Kirkus Reviews): Years after a video game entrepreneur dies during a routine surgery, his consciousness is restored on a computer — but his virtual reality afterlife takes some unexpected turns… “Epic” (Library Journal).
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author: Richard Forthrast has made a fortune with his multiplayer online role-playing game. But now a virus threatens both the virtual and real worlds — and Richard is at the center of the chaos. A wild adventure with over 14,000 five-star Goodreads ratings!
From a Hugo Award–winning author: With Earth threatened by cosmic disaster, humanity looked to the stars for salvation. Five thousand years later, their descendants embark on a journey back to the long-abandoned planet. A “remarkable novel” (Publishers Weekly) with nearly 26,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.
From an author called “a prophet of technology’s future” (Booklist): Nanotech engineer John Percival Hackworth risks the future of society when he steals a copy of a device that teaches independent thought. A “whimsical, satirical, and cautionary” sci-fi tale (USA Today) with over 32,000 five-star Goodreads ratings!
A New York Times bestselling author delivers an epic 18th-century historical saga filled with adventure, drama, and political intrigue. This box set is “readable as well as highly impressive… Will have readers — especially the history buffs among them — happily turning all its many pages” (Booklist on Quicksilver).
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this visionary cyberpunk tale with over 84,000 five-star Goodreads ratings! A pizza deliverer in real life, Hiro is a warrior prince in a virtual world, where he races to avert infocalypse. “A heady, surrealistic pastiche of the not-so-distant future” (Library Journal).
With nearly 3,400 five-star Goodreads ratings: Unconventional sleuth Sangamon Taylor follows a trail of toxic sludge into a dizzying web of danger in this “all-too-conceivable story of industry and science running amok” (Publishers Weekly). From a #1 New York Times bestselling author!
From a New York Times bestselling novelist comes the epic chronicle of three unlikely adventurers in Europe’s Baroque period — a time of warfare, intrigue, and scientific discoveries destined to change the world. With over 11,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads!
A #1 New York Times bestseller: The Concent is a sanctuary for great thinkers. Now, as they prepare to open their community to the outside world, young Razï unexpectedly faces an extraordinary journey that will take him across space and test what he’s made of. “Imposingly magnificent” (The Guardian).
A Prometheus and Locus Award–winning novel from a New York Times bestselling author: Alternating between World War II and the 1990s, this epic work of science fiction follows two American officers and their descendants as they uncover the secrets of the Third Reich’s cryptographers.