Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

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Paperback | 12 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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442 Pages

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20 x 13.5 x 2.5

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After the Internet, what came next?

Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.

Which is really bad news for Hiro, freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter (he wrote the code), and Y. T., skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl - because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .

Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.

About the Author

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Industry Reviews

Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action
Guardian

A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole
San Francisco Bay Guardian

Brilliantly realized. Stephenson [is] an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow
The New York Times

A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip
Timothy Leary

Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed
Washington Post

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