Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Random House Publishing Group, Aug 26, 2003 - Fiction - 480 pages

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  cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the  information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers  pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it  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.

What people are saying

Review: Snow Crash

User Review  - Rusty N - Goodreads

I don't have a lot to say about it. It was an excellent book. I loved the examinations of philosophy, religion, psychology, etc. You can't go wrong with pizza-delivering hacker-detective-spy sword fighters!

Review: Snow Crash

User Review  - BH - Goodreads

A very influential book in my work in the web - when I read it in 1994 its prescience was instrumental in my understanding of how the newly formed space called the web would evolve. Still worth a read ...

Contents

• Section 1: 19
• Section 2: 38
• Section 3: 70
• Section 4: 72
• Section 5: 117
• Section 6: 127
• Section 7: 142
• Section 8: 145
• Section 9: 149
• Section 10: 153
• Section 11: 190
• Section 12: 193
• Section 13: 194
• Section 14: 221
• Section 15: 235
• Section 16: 242
• Section 17: 249
• Section 18: 259
• Section 19: 268
• Section 20: 323
• Section 21: 326
• Section 22: 333
• Section 23: 344
• Section 24: 355
• Section 25: 369
• Section 26: 379
• Section 27: 384
• Section 28: 394
• Section 29: 409
• Section 30: 443
• Section 31: 455
• Section 32: 458
• Section 33: 463

About the author

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author, was born on October 31, 1959 in Maryland. He graduated from Boston University in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography with a minor in physics. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984. It received little attention and stayed out of print until Stephenson allowed it to be reprinted in 2001. His second novel was Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller was published in 1988, but it was his novel Snow Crash (1992) that brought him popularity. It fused memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology. Neal Stephenson has won several awards: Hugo for Best Novel for The Diamond Age (1996), the Arthur C. Clark for Best Novel for Quicksilver (2004), and the Prometheus Award for Best Novel for The System of the World (2005). He recently completed the The Baroque Cycle Trilogy, a series of historical novels. It consists of eight books and was originally published in three volumes and Reamde. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington. Stephenson also writes under the pseudonym Stephen Bury.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Snow Crash
• Author: Neal Stephenson
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2003
• ISBN: 0553898191, 9780553898194
• Length: 480 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk; Fiction / Science Fiction / General