{"title":"Neal Stephenson","description":"Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock,  as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open metaverse platform.","products":[{"product_id":"polostan-volume-one-of-bomb-light-paperback","title":"Polostan: Volume One of Bomb Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eTermination Shock and Cryptonomicon, \u003c\/em\u003ethe first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, \u003cem\u003ePolostan\u003c\/em\u003e follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, \u003cem\u003ePolostan\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101199864031,"sku":"9780062190383","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/B2HfMP7zYx9780062190383.webp?v=1781068455"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/neal-stephenson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}