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  1. Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction

    Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

    In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.

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  2. To The Best of Our Knowledge: Alan Turing

    The driving force behind modern computers, Alan Turing was born a hundred years ago. He launched the digital age, founded the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence, and helped the British win WWII by cracking the Nazi "Enigma" codes. He was persecuted by British authorities for the crime of being homosexual, and committed suicide at age 41. His life ended tragically, but his brilliance lives in the computers we use every day. We celebrate the Alan Turing Year.

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  3. GGG#47: Neal Stephenson « The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast: Official Site

    Neal Stephenson Farms Gold and Changes the World in Episode 47 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

    Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Reamde, joins us to discuss farming gold, studying Western martial arts, and changing the world through science fiction.

    Discussion Topic: Computer Role-Playing Game Design (with guest geek Keith Burgun)

    http://geeksguideshow.com/2011/10/12/ggg47-neal-stephenson/

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  4. Authors on Tour: Neal Stephenson - Anathem

    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, unpredictable “saecular” world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown.

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  5. Neal Stephenson on The Bat Segundo Show

    Neal Stephenson is most recently the author of Anathem. It is not known whether or not he “likes cake a lot.”

    From http://www.edrants.com/segundo/neal-stephenson-bss-245/

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  6. Anathem

    Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, reads from and discusses his new novel Anathem, a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable-yet strangely inverted-world.

    From: http://authorsontourlive.com/aot-135-neal-stephenson-podcasts-anathem/

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  7. The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture

    Neal Stephenson delivers a talk on Science Fiction as a Genre at Gresham College. Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its developments over more than a century.

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