Snow Crash

Stephenson, Neal

ISBN 10: 055308853X / ISBN 13: 9780553088533

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1992

About this Item

Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by Neal Stephenson on the title page. Bound in publisher's original tan wraps lettered in black and metallic red. Near Fine with light foxing to the top edge of the front cover, short tear to the foot of the front spine joint, light rubbing to the red metallic lettering, faint foxing, and light general wear. Seller Inventory # 140945208

Bibliographic Details

Title: Snow Crash

Publisher: Bantam Books, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Advance Uncorrected Proof.

About this title

Synopsis:

In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies

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