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Neal Stephenson issueth from a Clan of yeomen, itinerant Parsons,
ingeniers, and Natural Philosophers that hath long dwelt in the bucolick
marches and rural Shires of his native land, and trod the Corridors of her
'Varsities. At a young age, finding himself in a pretty Humour for writing of
Romances, and discourses of Natural Philosophy and Technologick Arts, he took
up the Pen, and hath not since laid it down.