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No one's work demonstrates this better than Neal Stephenson. Stephenson's work covers a lot of settings and storytelling modes. His debut, *The Big U*, was a contemporary novel lampooning academic life. Then came *Zodiac*, another contemporary novel, but one where science - in this case, extremely toxic polychlorinated biphenyls - take center stage. Then came his cyberpunk classic, *Snow Crash*, which was unambiguously (and gloriously) science fiction.

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