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Snow Crash : A Novel by Neal Stephenson (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Worlds
ISBN-100553380958
ISBN-139780553380958
eBay Product ID (ePID)1684348
Product Key Features
Book TitleSnow Crash : a Novel
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2000
GenreFiction
AuthorNeal Stephenson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-291134
Dewey Edition21
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
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SynopsisThe "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 NumberPS3569.T3868S65 2008
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