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Hombre, no hay una problema!
30 years ago I used to be a Contrib. Ed. to Reason and on the Bd. of the Foundation, '78-84.
I found myself increasingly out of step with the foreign pollicy views there, much as later happened with Mises, but I still think fondly of Bob Poole.
Hmm, sloppy html coding in that last reply. There should be a hyperlink to the essay he wrote, and one to the Reason mag interview.
Short? Not really. His books are long, yet readers typically report being sorry that the book has ended. I've only read _Snow Crash_ and _Cryptonomicon_, but I'll be reading (or at least starting) _The Baroque Cycle_ this summer. Also, he wrote this fascinating (but also long) essay on the history of the personal computer: http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/dokumentasjon/commandline.html>
He was interviewd in Reason Magazine not too long ago, that's here: http://www.reason.com/0502/fe.mg.neal.shtml
He's vaguely libertarianish as far as I can tell.
Mr. Stephenson sure takes a long time to get to the obvious.
In checking thru his many titles listed at Fetchbook.org, I see all of them seem to be in the range of 800-900 pages.
Since you know something of his work, is there anything short, that gives some sense of his worldview?