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Snow Crash - By Neal Stephenson, Rare first bantam trade edition 2000
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780553380958
- Book Title
- Snow Crash : a Novel
- Publisher
- Random House Worlds
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
- Item Weight
- 15.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Worlds
ISBN-10
0553380958
ISBN-13
9780553380958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1684348
Product Key Features
Book Title
Snow Crash : a Novel
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-291134
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."- Los Angeles Reader "A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland . This is no mere hyperbole."- San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."-William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."- New York Times Book Review, "Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."-Los Angeles Reader "A cross betweenNeuromancerand Thomas Pynchon'sVineland. This is no mere hyperbole."-San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."-William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."-New York Times Book Review, "Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel." --Los Angeles Reader "A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole." --San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." --William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." --The New York Times Book Review Look for other Bantam Spectra novels by Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age "(Stephenson) has gotten even better. The Diamond Age envisions the next century as brilliantly as Snow Crash did the day after tomorrow." --Newsweek "The Diamond Age establishes Neal Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age....At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary." --USA Today Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller "(Stephenson) captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here." --The Washington Post
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
The "brilliantly realized" ( The New York Times Book Review ) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He'll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination., 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, 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
LC Classification Number
PS3569.T3868S65 2008
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