The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".  but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

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Review

"Satire is Stephenson's major."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"A satiric, apocalyptic look at life . . . one is reminded of "Catch 22 . . . the author has beguiled us with a series of inventive episodes and stories, told in a witty, unusually clear and continuously fresh style. This is a most impressive debut."--"Publisher's Weekly"An entertaining and sometimes murderous satire on campus life."--"New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.