Critics sometimes gripe that Neal Stephenson's sprawling ... Stephenson's cinderblock-sized books are geeky odes to editorial noninterference. Those critics might enjoy his latest novel, Polostan ...

Neal Stephenson’s enthralling new novel, “Polostan,” drops readers ... “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon.” But the book is also ...

Book One, Stephenson et alia face the challenge of keeping most of them moving without getting too far ahead of the plot of this alternate history of the 13th-century Mongolian Neal Stephenson ...