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{{Short description|1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Interface 
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = StephenBury Interface.jpg
| caption       = First edition cover<br/>credited to Stephen Bury
| author        = [[Neal Stephenson]] and [[George Jewsbury]]
| cover_artist  = [[Bruce Jensen]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Bantam Books|Bantam]]
| release_date  = 1 April 1994
| media_type    = Print ([[Paperback]])
| pages         = 
| isbn = 0-553-37230-0
| isbn_note = (first edition, paperback)
| dewey= 813/.54 20
| congress= PS3552.U788 I58 1994
| oclc= 28148075
| preceded_by   = 
| followed_by   = 
}}

'''''Interface''''' is a 1994 [[novel]] by [[Neal Stephenson]] and J. Frederick George (a pseudonym of [[George Jewsbury]]) and originally published under the joint [[pseudonym]] [[Neal Stephenson|Stephen Bury]]. Reprints of the novel have credited the work to Stephenson and George.<ref>{{cite book
| last1                 = Stephenson
| first1                = Neal
| authorlink1           = Neal Stephenson
| last2                 = George 
| first2                = J. Frederick
| title                 = Interface
| edition               = 
| year                  = 2005
| origyear              = 1994
| publisher             = Bantam Spectra
| isbn                  = 9780553383430 
}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Doctorow">{{cite web |date=December 10, 2007 |author=Cory Doctorow |author-link=Cory Doctorow |title=Interface: Neal Stephenson's underappreciated masterpiece |work=BoingBoing.net | url = http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/interface-neal-steph.html }}</ref>