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Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!Just kill the one with the sword first.Ah, Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?No, fuckhead! Shaftoe yells. You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?

Neal Stephenson

Ronald Reagan has a stack of three-by-five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young marines on their way to Guadalcanal?Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long. The memories are still as fresh as last night's eleventh nighmare: ten plucky Nips in Suicide Charge!Just kill the one with the sword first.Ah, Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. Smarrrt--you target them because they're the officers, right?No, fuckhead! Shaftoe yells. You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?

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About Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.