'Inventive' THE TIMES

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon,the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the novels Termination Shock,Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning ...Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.