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When you interfere with the past, there's no telling what you might find in your future … In 1851 London's Crystal Palace hosts The Great Exhibition, showcasing the rise of technology and commerce, and alongside it, the decline of magic. Once powerful, now mere myth. Years later, Melisande Stokes, linguistics and languages expert, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy government agent, will rediscover magic and all its power, bringing about the creation of the Department of Diachronic Operations - D.O.D.O. D.O.D.O.'s mission is clear: to develop a device that will send their agents back in time to keep the magic alive … and alter the course of history. Written with genius and complexity, this vividly realised novel will make you believe the impossible, and question the very foundations of the modern world.

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.

Un complejo y ameno tecnothriller sobre la amenaza de manipulación tecnológica de la democracia. El gobernador Cozzano sufre una apoplejía poco antes de iniciarse el largo camino de las primarias para la nueva eleccion presidencial estadounidense. Como parte del tratamiento, se le propone la implantacion en el cerebro de un novedoso biochip con el que, ademas, estara conectado a un sofisticado sistema de encuestas electoral. De esta forma tiene acceso a la informacion sobre las reacciones, deseos y sentimientos de los electores, que le son comunicados directamente al cerebro, y se convierte inevitablemente en el candidato perfecto. Ante este sofisticado y poderoso desarrollo de la tecnologia, ¿que va a ocurrir con la democracia? ¿Puede ser libre la politica en la nueva era de las omnipresentes tecnologias de la informacion y de las neurociencias?

En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y joven capitán de la marina estadounidense, recibe la orden de colaborar con Bobby Shaftoe en una misión secreta que consiste en descifrar los codigos de las potencias del Eje y evitar que los nazis descubran que la Inteligencia aliada ha interpretado su mitico codigo Enigma. Sesenta años mas tarde, Randy Waterhouse, brillante criptohacker, proyecta la creacion en el sureste asiatico de un paraiso de datos que ha de convertirse en el mayor exponente de la libertad informatica: la Cripta. Cuando los gobiernos y las multinacionales atacan este proyecto, Randy se alia con Amy, la nieta de Shaftoe, para intentar rescatar un submarino nazi que contiene la clave para mantener a flote el sueño de la Cripta. Su estratagema pronto saca a la luz una gigantesca conspiracion y un codigo indescifrable llamado Aretusa. Por primera vez en castellano aparece en un solo volumen la edicion completa del libro mas logrado de Neal Stephenson. Criptonomicon, un tour de force narrativo, una obra profunda y profetica, hipnotica y trepidante. Una obra de arte, producto de una imaginacion iconoclasta y sorprendente.

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, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root, the ancestors of his central characters in the previous book, following them from their childhoods in London, to education at Cambridge amidst the political and religious fervour and tensions of the Reformation, through the English Civil War, and travels as far as afield as Poland and the American colonies. With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (Snowcrash, The Diamond Age) and for WWII (Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution

El libro de culto de los hackers: redes informaticas. Criptografía, matemáticas y todo lo imaginable en una macronovela en tres volúmenes que abarca desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial a un futuro cercano. En dos palabras: impresionante. Stephenson ha sido considerado como el Hemingway de los hackers y el Quentin Tarantino de la ciencia ficcion ciberpunk, y su novela como El señor de los anillos de la nueva sociedad de la informacion.Un verdadero tour de force narrativo, el ciber triller que se esta convirtiendo ya en el nuevo libro de culto hackers.En 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matematico y capitan de la marina estadounidense, colabora con Alan Turing y los especialistas britanicos de Betchely Park en el trabajo de descifrar los codigos secretos de las potencias del Eje. Sesenta años mas tarde, la empresa de su nieto y tambien brillante cripto-hacker, Randy Lawrence Waterhouse, proyecta crear un nuevo paraiso de datos y el mayor exponente de la libertad informatica: la Cripta. Si la matematica de los primeros criptoanalistas tuvo que someterse a las necesidades y exigencias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el revolucionario proyecto de la Cripta se ve condicionado por las normas y leyes tacitas de las altas finanzas internacionales y por el nuevo juego de poder que permiten las infotecnologias. La aventura, intelectual y humana, esta servida.

Premio Locus 2000 La novela de culto de los hackers.Criptonomicón, un tour de force narrativo incomparable, desmesurado y sorprendente. Un verdadero hito en la narrativa moderna con una atrevida mezcla de generos: ciencia ficcion, ucronia, thriller y un largo etcetera, que componen una novela sin igual repleta de humor e ironia.

Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a world of war, scientific, religious and political turmoil. With a cast of characters that includes Newton, Leibniz, Christopher Wren, Charles II, Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin, Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (Snowcrash,The Diamond Age) and for WWII (Cryptonomicon), here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution. Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique.

The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with ''Infernal Devices'' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England''s Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with ''The Pretender'' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson''s hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, The Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.

En un futuro Shanghai, un acaudalado neovictoriano hace fabricar un manual informatizado para la educación de su nieta Elizabeth. Se trata de un ingenio interactivo que se adapta automáticamente a la

"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