Stephenson is by far my favorite fiction author. His style of sci-fi is what draws me to the genre: It's filled with on-the-edge-of-plausibility concepts that m

Stephenson is by far my favorite fiction author. His style of sci-fi is what draws me to the genre: It's filled with on-the-edge-of-plausibility concepts that makes me wonder "What if we could do that", or gets me hacking on a project. The only other sci-fi I've found on his level have been the Children of Time books. I've read them all except Reamde, and found Termination Shock to be the tamest, so perhaps if you're new to Stephenson, don't start there.