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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an award-winning American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been variously categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and "postcyberpunk". Other labels, such as "baroque", have been used. Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as ''Wired''. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project ''The Mongoliad''. He is currently Magic Leap's Chief Futurist. ==Life== Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland,〔 Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists; his father is a professor of electrical engineering while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977.〔 Stephenson studied at Boston University,〔 first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe.〔 He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography and a minor in physics.〔 Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neal Stephenson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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