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Zodiac: The Eco-thriller
Neal Stephenson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hard-science and
engineering professors. He began his higher education as physics major, then
switched to geography when it appeared that this would enable him to scam more
free time on his university's mainframe computer. When he graduated and
discovered, to his perplexity, that there were no jobs for inexperienced
physicist-geographers, he began to look into alternative pursuits such as
working on cars, agricultural labour and writing novels. His first novel, The
Big U, was published in 1984 and vanished without trace. Zodiac: The Eco-
thriller is his second novel. On first coming out in 1988 it quickly developed
a cult following among water-pollution-control engineers and was enjoyed,
though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists. The highly successful
Snow Crash was written between 1988 and 1991, as the author listened to a
great deal of loud, relentless, depressing music. It was followed by the
equally successful The Diamond Age. Most of his novels are available in Roc.
Neal Stephenson lives in Seattle.


SIGNET
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books USA
Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcom Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2
Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
First published in the USA by Bantam by arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly
Press 1988
Pint published in Great Britain in Signet 1997
13579108642
Copyright O Neal Stephenson, 1988 All rights reserved
'Dirty Water' by Ed Cobb. Copyright O Equinox Music, 1965. All rights
reserved. Used by permission
Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pic
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject
to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,
re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's
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which it is published and without a similar condition including this
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A mere acknowledgment doesn't fully reflect the contribution made by Marco
Paul Johann Kaltofen; a spot on the title page would be more fitting.
In the category of plain old, but deserved, acknowledgments, it should be
mentioned that the hard-boiled fiction of James Crumley got me going on this