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1	Anathem more books like this by Neal Stephenson Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, and unpredictable saecular world, until the day that a higher power decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the ... see all copies from £14.57! new only from £14.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Cryptonomicon more books like this by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present, ... see all copies from £2.02! new only from £6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Snow Crash more books like this by Neal Stephenson In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? But now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope. This book is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. see all copies from £2.05! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Quicksilver more books like this by Neal Stephenson As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien...Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, ... see all copies from £2.62! new only from £6.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Diamond Age more books like this by Neal Stephenson A nanotechnologist, John Hackworth, breaks the moral code of his tribe, the neo-Victorians. He has made an illicit copy of a device called "A Young Lady's Primer". Its purpose is to raise and educate a girl capable of thinking for herself, but Hackworth's copy has fallen into the wrong hands. see all copies from £2.06! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Diamond age : or, A young lady's illustrated primer more books like this by Neal Stephenson Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful "Neo-Victorians". He's made an illicit copy of a device designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. Unfortunately for him he loses the copy with disastrous results. see all copies from £5.77! new only from £9.29! \| first editions
7	The System of the World: Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle more books like this by Neal Stephenson 'Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds ... see all copies from £5.49! new only from £7.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Confusion more books like this by Neal Stephenson It is the late 1600s on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the oars of a pirate ship. These ten men - unfortunates from around the world impressed into servitude - have heard whispers of an enormous cache of Spanish gold. Together, they hatch a daring scheme - escape their chains, seize a ship, and find the treasure. ... see all copies from £2.06! new only from £7.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller more books like this by Neal Stephenson Troubleshooter and environmentalist Sangamon Taylor has his work cut out exposing contaminators and embarrassing powerful corporations. Chased by the FBI, the Mafia and a group of Satanists, he does a good job with the help of his Zodiac raft. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £8.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Confusion: Volume Two of the Baroque Cycle more books like this by Neal Stephenson In this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £11.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The System of the World more books like this by Neal Stephenson "New York Times" bestselling author Stephenson pens the final volume in his ambitious and compelling epic of intrigue, adventure, and excitement, filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery, and change. see all copies from £2.63! new only from £7.64! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Big U more books like this by Neal Stephenson Stephenson's first novel is now back in print. With a plot that meanders through academic catch-22s; massive, sonic stereo wars; neon-worshiping cults; and a campus-wide civil war, this scathing send-up of American college life presages the rise and fall of one of the most imaginative novelists writing today. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £9.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	In the Beginning...Was the Command Line more books like this by Neal Stephenson 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, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
14 view cover	Interface more books like this by Neal Stephenson, J Frederick George There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likeable Midwestern governor with one insidious advantage. An advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip inside his head wires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channelled directly into his brain. Forget issues ... see all copies from £2.74! new only from £8.76! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Cobweb more books like this by Neal Stephenson, J Frederick George On the eve of Operation Desert Storm, the murder of an Arab exchange student at a local university puts Iowa deputy sheriff Clyde Banks on a collision course with both the CIA and Saddam Hussein. It seems the students are Iraqis conducting "agricultural" research on biological weapons in his midwestern town. see all copies from £5.09! new only from £10.34! \| first editions
16 view cover	Odalisque more books like this by Neal Stephenson The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities -- as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous game as double agent and confidante of enemy kings. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.44! \| first editions
17 view cover	King of the Vagabonds more books like this by Neal Stephenson Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the second and third installments of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle epic--previously published in "Quicksilver, Vol. 1"--are now available in individual mass-market editions. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.44! \| first editions
18	Zodiac more books like this by Neal Stephenson Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbour dumping is still a favourite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass, Sangaman Taylor is Boston's modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful ... see all copies from £6.59! new only from £31.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Criptonomicon I: El Codigo Enigma more books like this by Neal Stephenson In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, mathematical genius and captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to Detachment 2702, whose mission is to keep Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Sixty years later, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a data haven where ... see all copies from £8.59! new only from £8.68!
20 view cover	Quicksilver Ltd: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle more books like this by Neal Stephenson In the first of a projected trilogy, Stephenson explores alchemy as one of the roots of mathematics and computers. With the ancestors of characters appearing in CRYPTONOMICON (Stephenson's previous novel), this literary adventure traverses Europe of the 1700s, with stops in the laboratories of some of the most famous scientists of the day, while ... see all copies from £65.18! new only from £65.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Confusion Ltd more books like this by Neal Stephenson In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a ... see all copies from £74.25! new only from £109.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	La Era del Diamante more books like this by Neal Stephenson, Pedro Jorge Romero (Translator) In a Shanghai of the future, John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the ... see all copies from £6.27! new only from £6.27!
23 view cover	The System of the World Ltd by Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson's monumental three-volume Baroque Cycle comes to a close with this installment. In 1714, Dr. Daniel Waterhouse, a Natural Philosophy and Royal Society Fellow travels from his home in Boston to London, at the behest of Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, whom Waterhouse met when she was a child. Princess Caroline would like ... see all copies from £45.54! new only from £45.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	The Practice of Business Statistics SPSS Manual more books like this by Moore McCabe, Paul Stephenson, Neal Rogness see all copies from £6.27! new only from £22.73!
25 view cover	Criptonomicon III: El Codigo Aretusa more books like this by Neal Stephenson In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, mathematical genius and captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to Detachment 2702, whose mission is to keep Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Sixty years later, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a data haven where ... see all copies from £18.92! new only from £18.92!

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