Snow Crash

Author(s): Neal Stephenson

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

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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Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action Guardian   A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole San Francisco Bay Guardian   Brilliantly realized. Stephenson [is] an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow The New York Times   A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip Timothy Leary   Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed Washington Post

Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

General Fields

  • : 9780241953181
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.314
  • : September 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 27mm
  • : October 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Neal Stephenson
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 448