![]() ![]() Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. The San Francisco Bay Guardianįast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century. Snow Crash is] a cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. 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. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. strong New York Times Bestseller strong strong From Neal Stephenson-who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash -comes a sweeping. 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. 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. ![]() One of Time's 100 best English-language novels - A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you'll recognize it immediately This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]()
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