Interface
- 641
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Interface” is a sharp political thriller about a presidential candidate steered through a brain implant. Neal Stephenson wrote it with J. Frederick George, and it first appeared under the pen name Stephen Bury. Some readers praise the way its storylines converge and how clearly it lays bare the machinery of campaigns and the ease with which voters are swayed. Others find that the ending drifts from plausible politics into fantasy.
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About the book
Interface is a 1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George and originally published under the joint pseudonym Stephen Bury. Reprints of the novel have credited the work to Stephenson and George. It is a thriller, set in the then-future year of 1996 when a shadowy coalition bent on controlling the world economy attempts to manipulate a candidate for president of the United States through the use of a computer biochip brain implant. It was described by writer Cory Doctorow in 2007 as an "underappreciated masterpiece".
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 76 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 34% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 5.8 | 9 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 67 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Interface?
It has 641 pages — longer than 88% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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