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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 works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

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A powerful voice of the cyber age. -- USA Today Stephenson is a literary visionary of the technological future. -- Seattle Weekly In the network world of the silicon samurai Stephenson is a big-time. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

""A powerful voice of the cyber age.""--""USA Today""Stephenson is a literary visionary of the technological future.""--""Seattle Weekly""In the network world of the silicon samurai Stephenson is a big-time.""--""Cleveland Plain Dealer

"""A powerful voice of the cyber age.""--""USA Today""Stephenson is a literary visionary of the technological future.""--""Seattle Weekly""In the network world of the silicon samurai Stephenson is a big-time.""--""Cleveland Plain Dealer"

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Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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