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Neal Stephenson and Postmodern literature

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Difference between Neal Stephenson and Postmodern literature

Neal Stephenson vs. Postmodern literature

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

Similarities between Neal Stephenson and Postmodern literature

Neal Stephenson and Postmodern literature have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Cyberpunk, David Foster Wallace, Maximalism, Thomas Pynchon, William Gibson, World War II.

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.

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Maximalism

In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an esthetic of excess and redundancy.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Neal Stephenson and Postmodern literature Comparison

Neal Stephenson has 130 relations, while Postmodern literature has 276. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 1.48% = 6 / (130 + 276).

References

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