Snow Crash

A Novel

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A Novel

By Neal Stephenson

By Neal Stephenson

By Neal Stephenson

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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    About Snow Crash

    One 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

    About Snow Crash

    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.

    About Snow Crash

    One 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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    Praise

    "Brilliantly realized…  Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an  onrushing tomorrow." — The New York Times  Book Review.

    "Snow Crash takes on a  whole slew of nasty contemporary trends and  extrapolates them hilariously into a pessimistic and  unlikely newar future… this is one book to chill  out with this summer." — Mondo  2000.

    "Stylish noir extrapolation becomes  gloriously witty social satire… savor Stephenson’s  delicious prose and cheerfully impudent wit.  Cyberpunk isn’t dead — it has just (belatedly)  developed a sense of humor."  –Locus.

    "A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive,  supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow  that is already happening. Neal Stephenson is  intelligent, perceptive, hip and will become a major  force in American writing." — Timothy Leary.

    "A cross between Neuromancer  and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland.  This is no mere hyperbole." — San  Francisco Bay Guardian.  

    "Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century."  – William Gibson.

    About Neal Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hardscience and engineering professors (mostly Pac-10, Big 10, and Big 8 with the occasional wild strain of Ivy). He began his higher education as a physics major, then switched to geography… More about Neal Stephenson

    About Neal Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hardscience and engineering professors (mostly Pac-10, Big 10, and Big 8 with the occasional wild strain of Ivy). He began his higher education as a physics major, then switched to geography… More about Neal Stephenson

    About Neal Stephenson

    Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hardscience and engineering professors (mostly Pac-10, Big 10, and Big 8 with the occasional wild strain of Ivy). He began his higher education as a physics major, then switched to geography… More about Neal Stephenson

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Del Rey
    May 02, 2000 | 576 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780553380958

    Hardcover
    Published by Del Rey
    Nov 22, 2022 | 576 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/8 | ISBN 9780593599730

    Ebook
    Published by Spectra
    Aug 26, 2003 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9780553898194

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