Snow Crash
A Novel
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Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison--a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you’ll recognize it immediately.
About this Author
Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open metaverse platform.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 576
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2000-05-02
Reviews
"One of the most popular sci-fi books of all time . . . It stands as a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement."--Wired
"Stephenson's cult classic has become canon in Silicon Valley, where a host of engineers, entrepreneurs, futurists, and assorted computer geeks . . . still revere Snow Crash as a remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape."--Vanity Fair
"Hip, surreal, distressingly funny . . . Neal Stephenson is a crafty plotter and a wry writer."--The Des Moines Register
"[Snow Crash] not only made the name of its author Neal Stephenson, it elevated him to the status of a technological Nostradamus."--Open Culture
"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland . . . This is no mere hyperbole."--The San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century."--William Gibson
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