Neal Stephenson
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| Born | Neal Town Stephenson October 31, 1959 Fort Meade, Maryland, United States |
| Pen name | Stephen Bury (with J. Frederick George) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, essayist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1984–present |
| Genre | Speculative fiction, historical fiction, essays |
| Literary movement | Cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, maximalism |
| Notable awards | Hugo Award, Prometheus Award |
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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.
His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He is currently Magic Leap's Chief Futurist.
Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists; his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977.
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