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Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Rating:  534 reviews
Sales Rank: 2141
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553380958
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553380958
ASIN: 0553380958
Publication Date: May 2, 2000
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.
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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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous…you’ll recognize it immediately.
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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 CosaNostra 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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.
"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
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 An amazing, multi-faceted read June 26, 2008
Michael Dippery (Pennsylvania, USA)
What an excellent book! I read this several years ago when I was still a high school student; I've read it at least four times since then. Every time I read it, I discover something new. There are a lot of issues approached in this book. It really is a gift that keeps on giving.
 Snow Crash on the Metaverse June 25, 2008
Duc N. Ly (Portland, OR USA)
The Art of Innovation led me to 'Snow Crash'. I started reading it over the weekend and didn't want to put it down. It's very funny. For some reason, I latched onto this book. Maybe it's because it talks about the Metaverse. Recently, I got into Second Life (SL). I need to do a little bit of research to find out which came first. It talks about people building houses in the virtual world. I can see some similarities between the Metav...more The Art of Innovation led me to 'Snow Crash'. I started reading it over the weekend and didn't want to put it down. It's very funny. For some reason, I latched onto this book. Maybe it's because it talks about the Metaverse. Recently, I got into Second Life (SL). I need to do a little bit of research to find out which came first. It talks about people building houses in the virtual world. I can see some similarities between the Metaverse that Neal Stephenson renders and the world of SL. I think this book has influenced a lot of people and companies. For example, the book talks about goggled into the virtual world through the vision apparatus, a goggle. Hm...Google sounds a lot like goggle. Was the book the source?
I'm not a big fan of Sc-fi books, but once in a while a book like 'Snow Crash' proves to be readable. I've try William Gibson's 'Neomancer'. I didn't make the leap into it yet. Maybe it's too far out there for me to grasp. 'Snow Crash' seems very plausible. I remember, in my younger days, buying David Brin's 'Startide Rising' because it had a cool cover of the man and dolphin. Uplift series
Great book, fun read June 25, 2008
Grecco Mosley (USA)
Great book, lots of fun to read. Full of humor, cool technology, and interesting characters. I highly suggest reading this book.
Starts off strange, but really gripping June 17, 2008
Mark Scheck (CT)
Do we have a Metaverse, with people already online 24/7. Stevenson does a good job at predicting some of things happening now, think Halo3.
I loved this book, if your a computer guy, its a great read.
 Starts great, then fizzles June 11, 2008
WQ (New Jersey)
This book starts off great, but about 70% of the way through it just went flat for me. There was way, way too much tedious description of all kinds of tangential stuff, a lot of it really boring, as if the author were describing the movie he was envisioning the book would become someday. The characters never really develop that much, and the story just starts to drag. That's just my opinion. I know millions would disagree. As Y.T. would say, Whatever.
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