20-03-15, 10:55 AM
Always been a big fan of Neil Stephenson's work. He's done quite a mix, from his early cyberpunk (Snow Crash, Diamond Age) stuff, to a huge swashbucklying pirate, Newtonian, renaissance epic trilogy (The Baroque Cycle), crazy WW2/modern crypto/gold hunting fiction (Cryptonomican), to slightly theoretical sci fi (Anathem), that's not a million miles away from Ian M. Banks' Culture series.