Neal Stephenson Archives

HBO Max announced this week that they would be producing a TV series from Neal Stephenson's dystopian gonzo Cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. The story features Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and pizza delivery guy for the mafia Hiro takes the role of cyberpunk street samurai very seriously In cyberspace, he's a godlike superhero He befriends Y.T., a[...]

It was Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Neal Asher who's just a f—ing idea factory And Joe Abercrombie, whose First Law books are my favorite books of all time Joe came up with the thing which is the most easily identifiable one that made it all the way through, which is Grace, Mackenzie Davis' character[...]

Further emphasizing a recent shift towards a larger investment in series development, Amazon Studios announced development of three series adaptations of popular sci-fi works: Lazarus, based on the comic book by Greg Rucka (Marvel's Jessica Jones) and Michael Lark (Gotham Central); Snow Crash, based on Neal Stephenson's cult novel; and Ringworld, based on Larry Niven's '70s sci-fi[...]