Zodiac: the Eco-Thriller Neal Stephenson
Zodiac: The Eco-thriller Neal Stephenson ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hard-science and engineering professors. He began his higher education as physics major, then switched to geography when it appeared that this would enable him to scam more free time on his university's mainframe computer. When he graduated and discovered, to his perplexity, that there were no jobs for inexperienced physicist-geographers, he began to look into alternative pursuits such as working on cars, agricultural labour and writing novels. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984 and vanished without trace. Zodiac: The Eco- thriller is his second novel. On first coming out in 1988 it quickly developed a cult following among water-pollution-control engineers and was enjoyed, though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists. The highly successful Snow Crash was written between 1988 and 1991, as the author listened to a great deal of loud, relentless, depressing music. It was followed by the equally successful The Diamond Age. Most of his novels are available in Roc. Neal Stephenson lives in Seattle. SIGNET Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcom Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the USA by Bantam by arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press 1988 Pint published in Great Britain in Signet 1997 13579108642 Copyright O Neal Stephenson, 1988 All rights reserved 'Dirty Water' by Ed Cobb.
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