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Нил Таун Стивенсон — американский писатель-фантаст.

Родился в семье профессора электротехники Университета Айовы и лабораторного техника-биохимика. Как романист дебютировал в 1984 году текстом «Большое У» . Автор романа «Лавина» , который подытожил основные достижения и художественные открытия киберпанка. В основу острого сюжета положена идея вируса Snow Crash, способного оказывать на людей пагубное воздействие, как в цифровой реальности, так и в биологических формах. Заслуга Стивенсона заключается в исчерпывающем описании нового вида коммерческой матрицы в виде МетаВселенной как вершины технологического прогресса.

Лауреат премии «Хьюго» . Иногда творчество Стивенсона относят к посткиберпанку. В соавторстве им написаны два романа. Это «Интерфейс» и «Паутина» . В романе Стивенсона «Криптономикон» отчетливо наблюдаются системные реминисценции, неоднократно отсылающие читателя к роману Радуга земного тяготения американского прозаика Т. Пинчона. В НФ-рассказе Стивенсона «Хруст» в реалистично-бытовой манере, но в узнаваемой стилистике новелл Ф. Кафки описаны методы воздействия на человека коммерческой рекламы и последствия агрессивного маркетинга продуктов питания и товаров потребления. Wikipedia  

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„Их отпрыски в большинстве своем достигли того возраста, когда дети не умиляют никого,
кроме собственных родителей, роста, при котором природная живость не столько восхищает,
сколько пугает, и той степени умственного развития, на которой милая детская непосредственность оборачивается недетским хамством. Пчелка, летящая за нектаром, радует глаз, хоть и таит в хвосте ядовитое жало; но шершень, преследующий ту же цель, заставляет нас озираться в поисках газеты или мухобойки.“

Нил Стивенсон

пчела
Источник: проза

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„Тот, кто дисциплинированно продумывает возможные исходы, устанавливает, таким образом, связи с другими космосами, где эти исходы — более чем возможность. Такое сознание измеримо, количественно отличается от сознания, не занимавшегося подобной работой, и потому — да, способно принимать правильные решения в ситуации, в которой обычный ум окажется бесполезен.“

Нил Стивенсон книга Анафем

сознание
Источник: Анафем

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„Любая душа способна породить целый мир.“

Нил Стивенсон книга Анафем

мир
Источник: Анафем

Нил Стивенсон: Цитаты на английском языке

“Most of the people on the Cloud Ark were going to have to be women.
There were other reasons for it besides just making more babies. Research on the long-term effects of spaceflight suggested that women were less susceptible to radiation damage than men. They were smaller on average, requiring less space, less food, less air. And sociological studies pointed to the idea that they did better when crammed together in tight spaces for long periods of time.
This was controversial, as it got into fraught topics of nature vs. nurture and whether gender identity was a social construct or a genetic program.
But if you bought into the idea that boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something that every parent who had ever raised a boy had to take seriously—then it was difficult to envision a lot of them spending their lives in tin cans.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"Scouts"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I'm sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I'll name one. Bankers with long attention spans don't lend money to people who can't pay it back. If we had more bankers who adopted a long-term view of their responsibilities, we might not be in the middle of a financial crisis that is blowing away 150-year-old investment banks.”

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Neal Stephenson

In response to whether Anathem "reflects today's culture or politics," from an interview published Sept. 22, 2008 by MIT News http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/stephenson-qa-0922.html

“"Ylma is having you work it out in the most gruesome way possible… so that when she teaches you how it's really done, it'll seem that much easier…. Like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer—it feels so good when you stop." This was the oldest joke in the world, but Barb hadn't heard it before, and he became so amused that he got physically excited and had to run back and forth across the kitchen several times to flame off energy. A few weeks ago, I would have been alarmed by this and would have tried to calm him down, but now I was used to it, and knew that if I approached him physically things would get much worse.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Part 4, "Anathem"
Anathem (2008)

“This isn’t the first. People have been making malware that does this for a few years now. There’s a word for it: ‘ransomware.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Day 1
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“There’s no way to get from the point in Hemn space where we are now, to one that includes pink nerve-gas-farting dragons, following any plausible action principle. Which is really just a technical term for there being a coherent story joining one moment to the next. If you simply throw action principles out the window, you’re granting the world the freedom to wander anywhere in Hemn space, to any outcome, without constraint. It becomes pretty meaningless. The mind…knows that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next—that restricts our world’s path to points that tell an internally consistent story. So it focuses its worrying on outcomes that are more plausible…”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Orolo and Erasmas, Part 4, "Anathem"
Anathem (2008)

“Much pruning had taken place in recent weeks. I am now absent in many versions of the cosmos where you are present.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Jad to Raz, Part 11, "Advent"
Anathem (2008)

“Neither of us said a word as we picked our way down the path for the next quarter of an hour, and the sky receded to a deep violet. I had the illusion that, as it got darker, it moved away from us, expanding like a bubble, rushing away at a million light-years an hour, and as it whooshed past stars, we began to see them.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Part 8, "Orithena"
Anathem (2008)

“Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.”

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Neal Stephenson

"The Oral Tradition"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

“Jim and his crew of a dozen or so specialize in loud, sloppy publicity seeking…. Myself, I like the stiletto-in-the-night approach. That's partly because I'm younger, a post-Sixties type, and partly because my thing is toxics, not nukes or mammals. … there are all kinds of direct, simple ways to go after toxic criminals.
You just plug the pipes.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Zodiac

Источник: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 6

“Passing through the utility section [Ivy] considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"Hard Rain"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“The “Meat” were there because of REAMDE, which had been present at background levels for several weeks now but that recently had pinballed through the elbow in its exponential growth curve and for about twelve hours had looked as though it might completely take over all computing power in the Universe, until its own size and rapid growth had caused it to run afoul of the sorts of real-world friction that always befell seemingly exponential phenomena and bent those hockey-stick graphs over into lazy S plots.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Day 1
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“The corporations have already planted their own bombs. All we have to do is light the fuses.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Zodiac

Источник: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 4, Sangamon Taylor on why violent action is not necessary against polluting corporations

“Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Sokolov, Day 2
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

““We live in strange times. I’m fertile right now. I can tell. No more condoms for you, tiger."… [Doob] was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"Scouts"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

““Do your neighbors burn one another alive?” was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec.
“Do your shamans walk around on stilts?” Fraa Orolo asked, reading from a leaf that, judging by its brownness, was at least five centuries old. Then he looked up and added helpfully, “You might call them pastors or witch doctors.”
“When a child gets sick, do you pray? Sacrifice to a painted stick? Or blame it on an old lady?”
“Do you fancy you will see your dead dogs and cats in some sort of afterlife?””

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Part 1, Provener; The questionnaire, in use for 1,100 years, is used once every ten years to determine if civilization outside the monastic compound is beginning to regress.
Anathem (2008)

“It is a bit unsettling, at first, to think of Apple as a control freak, because it is completely at odds with their corporate image. Weren't these the guys who aired the famous Super Bowl ads showing suited, blindfolded executives marching like lemmings off a cliff? Isn't this the company that even now runs ads picturing the Dalai Lama (except in Hong Kong) and Einstein and other offbeat rebels?
It is indeed the same company, and the fact that they have been able to plant this image of themselves as creative and rebellious free-thinkers in the minds of so many intelligent and media-hardened skeptics really gives one pause. It is testimony to the insidious power of expensive slick ad campaigns and, perhaps, to a certain amount of wishful thinking in the minds of people who fall for them. It also raises the question of why Microsoft is so bad at PR, when the history of Apple demonstrates that, by writing large checks to good ad agencies, you can plant a corporate image in the minds of intelligent people that is completely at odds with reality.”

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"Class Struggle on the Desktop"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

“Richard resumed reading the T’Rain Gazette, a daily newspaper (electronic format, of course)… which summarized what had been going on all over T’Rain during the preceding twenty-four hours:
Notable achievements, wars, duels, sackings, mortality statistics, plagues, famines…untoward spikes in commodity prices.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Day 1
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“These changes in identity and location can easily become nested inside each other, many layers deep, even if you aren't doing anything nefarious. Once you have forgotten who and where you are, the whoami command is indispensible.”

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"The Oral Tradition"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

“The moon had broken up into seven large pieces, which inevitably became known as the Seven Sisters, and an uncountable number of smaller ones. Gradually the big ones acquired names. Doc Dubois was responsible for many of these. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn’t scare people. It wouldn’t do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"The Seven Sisters"; Book reviewers commonly compared the character DuBois Jerome Xavier Harris, Ph.D. (aka Doc Dubois or Doob) to Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Zodiac

Источник: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 9

“Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity — it is, in a word, bourgeois — and so it attracts all of the same gripes.”

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"Class Struggle on the Desktop"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)

“The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“Give me an adventure. I’m not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I’m old.”
“I can’t predict the future,” I said, “but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing.”
“Great!”
“Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Anathem (2008)

“People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters,” Ty said.
“So it is like believing in God.”
“Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

Epilogue
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“He told us that a lone avout was being pursued by a mob. We saw it as an emergence.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Анафем

Vale leader explains to Raz how they came to rescue him, Part 7, "Feral"
Anathem (2008)

“This is a history, in that it intends to describe what happened and suggest why. … I may have fooled around with a few facts. But I served as witness until as close to the end as anyone could have … and so there is not so much art in this as to make it irrelevant.”

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Neal Stephenson книга The Big U

Early schema for author's now-familiar approach to historic events and persons; "The Go Big Red Fan" (prologue)
The Big U (1984)

“Is this a real blue-collar bar or a simulacrum thereof?”
“Both. It started out as a pure simulacrum, a few years ago, before the economy crashed, when it was hip for twentysomethings to move down here and dress in Carhartts and Utilikilts. But they did such a good job of it that actual blue-collar people began to show up. And then the economy did crash, and the hip people discovered that they were, in actual point of fact, blue collar, and probably always would be. So you’ve got guys here who run lathes. But they have colored Mohawks and college degrees, and they program the lathes in computer languages. I was trying to come up with a name for them. Cerulean-collar workers, maybe.”
“Do a lot of people stop by here on their way to the private jet terminal?”
“You’d be surprised.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Reamde

Day 17, Seattle
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls

“Very old money was behind the Crow’s Nest. And enough of it that its Owners didn’t mind losing some every month to keep the place going. It was a kind of eleemosynary institution, created to serve not culture and not dukh, but a thing called the Purpose. And if Ty kept working there for another few decades, perhaps one of the Owners would sit him down one day in the Bolt Hole and deign to tell him what exactly the Purpose was.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"Five Thousand Years Later"
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“Both of them have seen many young Western men arrive here on business missions and completely lose control of their sphincters and become impediments to any kind of organized activity. Daily hired Wall because, like Daily, he is a stable family man who has his act together…and they seem to be making excellent progress toward their goal, which is to run two really expensive wires across the Malay Peninsula. They tend to be absolutely straight shooters…. Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today. On the other hand, if I had an unlimited amount of money and woke up tomorrow morning with a burning desire to see a 2,000-hole golf course erected on the surface of Mars, I would probably call men like Daily and Wall, do a handshake deal with them, send them a blank check, and not worry about it.”

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"Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 (1996)

“[Doc Dubois] had been focusing all of his attention in the other direction, on Peach Pit and its iron-rich “children,” PP1, PP2, and PP3, nailing down their exact orbital parameters, taking high-res photographs.
PP3 was especially interesting. It was a congealed glob of mostly iron, similar in composition to Amalthea. It was some fifty kilometers in diameter. And it had a deep cleft on one side, comparable in size to the Grand Canyon, apparently formed by a collision that had rent its outer skin while it was partly congealed. Doob had begun calling PP3 Cleft.”

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Neal Stephenson книга Seveneves

"Day 700"
Seveneves (2015), Part Two