| - The Big U [1984]
- According to Stephenson: "The Big U is essentially sophomoric campus humour - it has a few worthy moments, a few bright spots, but it's probably not worth seeking out."
- Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller [1988]
- Eco-warrior Sangamon Taylor tries to avoid the FBI, the Mafia and being sacrificed by drug-crazed heavy metal satanists, while attempting to stop an unhinged genetic engineer capable of destroying all ocean life.
- Snow Crash [1992]
- The katana-wielding Hiro Protagonist flips between his mafia-pizza delivery dayjob and the virtual world of the Metaverse. He teams up with the hip, skateboard courier YT, to fight an ancient Sumerian virus that can infect the human mind.
FR: Le samouraï virtuel
NL: Het Babel virus
- Interface [1994, co-written as Stephen Bury]
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In the near-future, a shadowy conspiracy attempts to take control of a US presidential candidate by implanting a computer bio-chip in his brain.
- The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer [1995]
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In a Neo-Victorian future society, a nano-tech engineer steals an interactive primer designed to encourage girls to think for themselves - but the book ends up in the hands of the underprivileged Nell and changes her life forever.
FR: L'age de diamant
NL: De Alchemist
- The Cobweb [1996, co-written as Stephen Bury]
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When the corpse of a foreign exchange student is found floating around, small-town deputy sheriff Clyde Banks investigates. What he uncovers is a terrorist plot involving chemical warfare and an international web of deceit that leads all the way back to Washington.
- Cryptonomicon [1999]
- The tale of a World War II cryptoanalyst combines with his grandson's modern-day quest to establish an Asian data-haven.
- Quicksilver [2003]
- The story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.
- The Confusion [2004]
- Continues the story begun in Quicksilver.
- The System of the World [2004]
- The conclusion of the the story begun in Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.
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