About the Book

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.

Resources

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780380815937
• ISBN 10: 0380815931
• Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
• On Sale: 11/09/1999
• Pages: 160
• List Price:15.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : COMPUTERS / General
• BISAC2 : COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Spreadsheets
• BISAC3 : COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX
• BISAC4 : COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux

Neal Stephenson

Biography

NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of: <i>Fall or, Dodge in Hell</i>; <i>The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.</i> (with Nicole Galland); <i>Seveneves</i>, <i>Reamde</i>, <i>Anathem</i>; the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (<i>Quicksilver</i>, <i>The Confusion</i>, and <i>The System of the World</i>); <i>Cryptonomicon</i>, <i>The Diamond Age</i>, <i>Snow Crash</i> and <i>Zodiac</i>, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work <i>In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line</i>.

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