--- product_id: 143461253 title: "Atmosphæra Incognita" price: "A$8" currency: AUD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.com.au/products/143461253-atmosphæra-incognita store_origin: AU region: Australia --- # Atmosphæra Incognita **Price:** A$8 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Atmosphæra Incognita - **How much does it cost?** A$8 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.au](https://www.desertcart.com.au/products/143461253-atmosphæra-incognita) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Atmosphæra Incognita - Kindle edition by Stephenson, Neal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Atmosphæra Incognita. Review: great short story - Very cool idea and great story. Too short!! The description of the tower is believable and plausible. Well thought-out and well researched which added much to this short story. Review: typical stephenson infodump - IT'S AWESOME! - whether he's talking about how the aftermath of the tower of babel could have served as a worldwide firewall to protect humanity from a meme monoculture that's susceptible en toto to a bad idea or casually talking about the nature of money and the value of minerals, or how we could leverage chains in orbit to get us into space, stephenson's always been a guy that makes me put down the book for a second to wonder, "who the f@#$ is this guy???" for me, that's stephenson at his best. he's like the school teacher that i never had and wished i did. except the topics that he teaches are speculative and is bound to just blow my mind. he has interesting plots and characters as well (the best imo are in his shockingly excellent REAMDE) but i confess that when he downshifts into infodump mode, that's when i rub my hands in glee looking forward to having my mind expanded to bursting. the entire, short book is basically an infodump wrapped up in an excuse of plot and character. everything else is SERVICEABLE but the real steak here is the infodump and creating a space tower... the characters are great. very very slight... but the amazing thing is that they're SHARPLY DRAWN for what they are... and it totally works. great stuff and if stephenson just keeps pumping out short stories just like this, i'll be there with a bib, steak and fork and ready for him to shut up and take ma money. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #87,355 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #62 in 90-Minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads #182 in 90-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads #282 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store) | ## Images ![Atmosphæra Incognita - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91qaeTAqvSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great short story *by V***S on November 30, 2025* Very cool idea and great story. Too short!! The description of the tower is believable and plausible. Well thought-out and well researched which added much to this short story. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ typical stephenson infodump - IT'S AWESOME! *by J***G on September 26, 2019* whether he's talking about how the aftermath of the tower of babel could have served as a worldwide firewall to protect humanity from a meme monoculture that's susceptible en toto to a bad idea or casually talking about the nature of money and the value of minerals, or how we could leverage chains in orbit to get us into space, stephenson's always been a guy that makes me put down the book for a second to wonder, "who the f@#$ is this guy???" for me, that's stephenson at his best. he's like the school teacher that i never had and wished i did. except the topics that he teaches are speculative and is bound to just blow my mind. he has interesting plots and characters as well (the best imo are in his shockingly excellent REAMDE) but i confess that when he downshifts into infodump mode, that's when i rub my hands in glee looking forward to having my mind expanded to bursting. the entire, short book is basically an infodump wrapped up in an excuse of plot and character. everything else is SERVICEABLE but the real steak here is the infodump and creating a space tower... the characters are great. very very slight... but the amazing thing is that they're SHARPLY DRAWN for what they are... and it totally works. great stuff and if stephenson just keeps pumping out short stories just like this, i'll be there with a bib, steak and fork and ready for him to shut up and take ma money. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A long short story or a short novella about a tower and a dream *by T***G on August 26, 2019* This is a quick read and not really in the style of anything I've read before of Neal's. This is good. I like to see writer's try out new styles of writing. The tale spans decades and a life telling about how a simple idea became a monster of a tower. It feels like maybe Neal will write another tale in this setting but I could be wrong. For $3 it is a fair deal for a kindle format. The hardcover price of over $20 seems less than ideal and I would understand if someone who wasn't looking closely and bought this might be very angry. My impression of the story reminded me a lot of Charles Sheffield's The web between the Worlds and Neal's recent SevenEves epic. Maybe he had originally planned on SevenEves starting in this setting before abandoning that idea. Maybe. It also reminded me with its optimism of David Brin's Tinkers comic. 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