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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1-Chapter 4)

Objective

The objective of today's lesson is for students to analyze the author's background and explore how the author's personality and life experience might be reflected in the book.

Neal Stephenson, the author, has a deep connection to science and engineering. His parents and grandparents were scientists and engineers. Stephenson himself studied physics and geography in college. He worked as an advisor to Jeff Bezos' space launch program. He has written several books that explore technology, philosophy, and the history of science. He writes non-fiction articles about technology, futurism, and the climate for various publications. Stephenson is someone who spends a lot of time thinking and writing about technology, the climate, and the future. This orientation comes out clearly in Termination Shock, through the personality of the characters, their occupations in the story, their actions and behaviors, and the general arc of the book's plot. Students will...

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