Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)

Authors:

• Neal Stephenson

Topics:

• future
• internet
• science fiction
• economics
• history
• technology
• nanotechnology
• language
• programming
• society

• computers
• 20th century
• american
• usa
• historical fiction
• american literature
• dystopia
• sci-fi
• conspiracy
• speculative fiction
• sff
• english
• satire
• america
• social commentary
• postmodern
• dystopian fiction
• cyberpunk
• humor
• near future
• drugs
• mythology
• religion
• snow
• thriller
• science
• futurism
• amazon
• geek
• computer science
• tech
• linguistics
• american author
• mmpb
• cyberspace
• cyberculture
• virtual reality
• postcyberpunk
• hard sf
• american fiction
• sumerian
• ninja
• steampunk
• cults
• postmodernism
• 20th century literature
• memes
• swords
• contemporary fiction
• babel
• samurai
• virtual worlds
• classic science fiction
• post-apocalyptic
• modern fiction
• capitalism
• pentecostalism
• genre
• skateboarding
• fsf
• anarchism
• cypherpunk
• transhumanism
• cyborgs
• corporations
• skateboarders
• metaverse
• nuclear weapons
• neurolinguistics
• skateboards
• viruses
• pizza
• hiro protagonist
• vr
• cyberfiction
• swashbuckling
• artificial intelligence
• california
• consumerism
• computer viruses
• cyber
• hacking
• hackers
• second life
• swordplay
• punk
• boston
• mafia
• los angeles
• hacker

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Publisher:

• Spectra

Published:

May 2000

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 ...

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.

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