Snow Crash: A NovelOne of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you’ll recognize it immediately 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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User Review - RobertDay - LibraryThingI've come a little late to the works of Neal Stephenson. This is the third novel of his that I've read; I enjoyed it immensely. We are in high cyberpunk territory; in the near future, the USA is ... Read full review
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User Review - Shijuro - LibraryThingExcellent story from a visionary cyberpunk author. This was one of my first ebooks and I sat my Second Life avatar inside a virtual recreation of the Black Sun nighclub while I was reading it. It felt ... Read full review
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Section 31 | 455 |
Section 32 | 458 |
Section 33 | 463 |
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