Snow Crash - Softcover

Stephenson, Neal

4.02

279,812 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140232923 ISBN 13: 9780140232929

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

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The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? In a major city, the size of a dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited only by the imagination. But now a strange new computer virus called Snow Crash is striking down hackers everywhere, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last best hope.

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Review:

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. --Acton Lane

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"
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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"

Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel. Los Angeles Reader
[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"

"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."--Los Angeles Reader

"[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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