From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and …

Oct 15, 2024 · Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating …

Oct 15, 2024 · Read 700 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of…

Oct 15, 2024 · Neal Stephenson’s New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy “Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.

Oct 15, 2024 · There is, of course, no perfect way around that problem when publishing a series! Much of the next volume is already written, and when the dust settles from the book tour, which …

Apr 21, 2025 · We are thrilled to be hosting the launch of Neal Stephenson’s newest book Polostan. This is the first installment in a monumental new series called Bomb Light — an …

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Oct 15, 2024 · An adventurous young woman makes her way into the Soviet Union’s intelligence service in the first volume of Stephenson’s new Bomb Light series.

Oct 20, 2024 · But the book is also utterly unlike the majority of Stephenson's work. For one thing, it's short — a far cry from the maximalist "systems novels" that cram in entire worlds with …

Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from …