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Snow Crash
A Novel
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In this mind-altering romp where the term Metaverse was first coined you ll experience a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you ll recognize it immediately One of Time s 100 best English-language novelsOnly 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 Protagon...
In this mind-altering romp where the term Metaverse was first coined you ll experience a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you ll recognize it immediately One of Time s 100 best English-language novels
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 CosoNostra 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.
Praise for Snow Crash
[Snow Crash is] 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
Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. The New York Times Book Review
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 CosoNostra 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.
Praise for Snow Crash
[Snow Crash is] 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
Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. The New York Times Book Review
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