Reamde - by Neal Stephenson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This visionary author who has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson and Michael Crichton returns with a high-stakes thriller about a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling."<br/>--<em>Time</em></p><p>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Anathem</em>, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations--whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (<em>Snow Crash</em>), or both (<em>Cryptonomicon</em>). With <em>Reamde</em>, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace--not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton--once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, <em>Reamde</em> is a new high--and a new world--for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.<br/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>From the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual.</p><p>The black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a small fortune over the years--and then increased it a thousandfold when he created T'Rain. A massive, multibillion-dollar, multiplayer online role-playing game, T'Rain now has millions of obsessed fans from the U.S. to China. But a small group of ingenious Asian hackers has just unleashed Reamde--a virus that encrypts all of a player's electronic files and holds them for ransom--which has unwittingly triggered a war that's creating chaos not only in the virtual universe but in the real one as well. Its repercussions will be felt all around the globe--setting in motion a devastating series of events involving Russian mobsters, computer geeks, secret agents, and Islamic terrorists--with Forthrast standing at ground zero and his loved ones caught in the crossfire.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In less masterful hands, this pile-up of implausible coincidences, madcap romance, technological mayhem and nail-biting suspense might have been a train wreck, but Stephenson pulls it off. REAMDE has one of the most satisfyingly over-the-top endings of anything I've read in years. "--<em>Washington Post Book World</em><br><br>"<i>Reamde</i> is an entertainment, an enormous, giddily complex one. There's no telling what Stephenson might be planning for his next novel, but now's the time to dive into a first-rate intellectual thriller without fear of being overwhelmed by its virtuosity."--San Francisco Chronicle on REAMDE<br><br>"Even at a thousand pages, <i>Reamde</i> is sprightly enough to jump between 9 or 10 plot threads without getting tangled up in itself....[A]n addicitve reading experience. You don't so much read the book as tear whole hundred-page chunk out of it with your eyes."--Stranger magazine on REAMDE<br><br>"Neal Stephenson has guts, a killer story, and--for the first time since <i>Cryptonomicon</i>--a thriller I can thoroughly recommend to any reader....With REAMDE we have a very smart page-turner--a global chess game expertly played."--Mental_Floss on REAMDE<br><br>"Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only</i> one."--Lev Grossman, Time magazine<br><br>"Noir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller...Who'll prevail? We don't know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson's knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarn--most geeky, and full of statisfying mayhem."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on REAMDE<br><br>"[A] rip-roaring race through computer hacking and guns, China and North America, virtual reality and terrorism. "--Sunday Times (London) on REAMDE<br><br>"[REAMDE] is, without a doubt, one of the smartest, fastest-moving, and most consistently enjoyable novels of the year, a book with the rare distinction of being one this reviewer wishes he had written."--Irish Examiner on REAMDE<br><br>"[Stephenson] makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin."--International Herald Tribune on REAMDE<br><br>"A story that, despite its gargantuan heft, speeds along like a bullet train....The depth of the story, the attention to detail, the interlocking narratives and fine characterizations mark REAMDE as an immersive literary experience."--Pittsburgh Tribune on REAMDE<br><br>"After a decade of novels set in 18th century Europe and in alternate universes, Neal Stephenson triumphantly returns as a bestselling author to contemporary America."--www.fantasyliterature.com<br><br>"Expertly crafted and often gorgeously written."--Boston Globe on REAMDE<br><br>"It's hard to sum up a 1,000 page tome in a short review, so if you don't feel like reading this rather long one, I'll boil it down to three words: I loved it."--Tor.com on REAMDE<br><br>"Nobody else writes like Stephenson"--Press Association (England) on REAMDE<br><br>"REAMDE combines meticulous observation of the stranger socioeconomic effects wrought by technology with rousing fusillades of adventure."--The Guardian on REAMDE<br><br>"REAMDE is...one big, carefully choreographed, jet-set square-dance of mayhem."--Bloomberg News<br><br>"Stephenson somehow makes his crazy setup entirely plausible and tons of fun."--Knoxville News-Sentinel on REAMDE<br><br>"Stephenson...delivers a sprawling thriller that shows him in complete control of his story."--Publishers Weekly on REAMDE<br><br>"Stephenson, best-known for his genre-hopping novels, tackles tech-terrorism in Reamde."--OakPark.Patch.com<br><br>"Stephenson's REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller...a triumph, all 980 pages of it."--Cory Doctorow, boingboing.com<br><br>"There's an intellectual pill buried deep in Mr. Stephenson's narrative candy, one powerful enough that he deserves to be classified as a major national and international resource."--Wall Street Journal on REAMDE<br>
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