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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Author Neal Stephenson. Title Snow Crash. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. Format Paperback. Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see.

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The "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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Worlds
ISBN-10
0553380958
ISBN-13
9780553380958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1684348

Product Key Features

Book Title
Snow Crash : a Novel
Author
Neal Stephenson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
576 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3569.T3868s65 2008
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
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-291134
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Dewey Edition
21

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5 out of 5 stars
by theestatepreser...24 Feb, 2009
A Plausible, Fast-Paced, Entertaining Science Fiction
Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel, "Snow Crash," plunges the reader into a not-too-distant, science fiction future. The book is set in the arena of California- sort of. America has become a "Burbclave" patchwork of city-states, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, and the Internet- existing as the Metaverse- looks something like every computer scientist's wetdream. Hiro Protagonist- hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver- follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology, as he tries to thwart an attempt to take control of civilization. When he logs onto Metaverse- an imaginary place entered via computer, much like the Sims, avatars and all- Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him to avoid the emonymous drug Snow Crash and gives him a file labeled Babel- think the Tower of Babel in Genesis. Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id ignores Juanita's warning and "computer crashes" out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T.- a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier- and numerous other Burbclave residents, along with franchise power figures, drive the story arc toward finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. "Snow Crash" is a fast-paced futuristic novel that intertwines everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Stephenson's science fiction writing is bizarre- yet he ties his fantastic creation to the real world just enough to seem plausible. Although "Snow Crash" heavily leans on Sumerian culture and ideas, the imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail makes this book a fascinating read.Read full review
5 out of 5 stars
by coderanger06 Mar, 2016
Best Stepheson Novel
Great speculative science fiction, and a fairly large but not overwhelmingly huge cast of interesting characters. Futuristic and gritty, and still mind-blowing, all at the same time. Cool motorcycles, sword fights, super-skateboards, stylized cyberspace, evil guys, with a healthy dose of Mesopotamian legend/pseudo-history thrown in. This was my first Stephenson novel, and have been re-reading it over the years and recommend it to friends when I can (then try to buy a new book when my friends are slow in giving it back!)
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5 out of 5 stars
by synthkonstrukt2...15 Mar, 2009
Good reading...
I ordered this book on the suggestion of a friend, and it's turned out to be a very good read. So far I'm quite happy with it. The story chronicles the life of a freelance hacker who starts the story as a "Deliverator" for the mob's pizza franchise called Cosa Nostra Pizza Delivery in Southern California. From what I could tell of the world he lives in, it's in an early 21st century United States in which the government has collapsed and now comprised of many corporate run city states throughout the former nation. I'm still in the first few chapters, so I couldn't really say much more about the story, but so far it's been very well written and enjoyable.
5 out of 5 stars
by rR7Ey-GITKi@Del...18 Nov, 2006
Costra Nostra Pizza
With characters like Hiro Protagonist --hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver, how can you not like it? It has designer drugs gone riot (Snow Crash) and lots of tongue-in-cheek cyberpunk humor. Less pretentious than Gibson- I love his work, but it's not light readint- it's worth whatever bean or ruble you have to toss to get it. If you don't like the genre, I would still recommend it as a fun read.
5 out of 5 stars
by jenjenjen2802 Jul, 2020
Beautiful book
Shipped in beautiful condition. It was a gift to my husband and he loved it!
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