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 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, … 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 CosoNostra 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.
Praise for Snow Crash
“[Snow Crash is] a cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.”—William Gibson
“Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Neal Stephenson is nothing short of brilliant.
This is one of those future-tech kind of adventures. If you like SF, enjoy speculating on how the future might unfold and are enthused about the potential for tech – this might be right up your alley!
Genre setting novel
The classic cyberpunk novel, with enormous momentum and brilliant foresight for today’s does of data visualization.
This is the book (along with Walter John Williams’ HARDWIRED) that hooked me on cyberpunk. Clever, challenging ideas and writing, tech ideas that (at the time of release) were brilliantly new and fresh, tons of humor and energy. Can be a bit too challenging if you are looking for a light, breezy read, but this one is a lot of fun.
An amazing cyberpunk ride right to the end.
I was referred to Snow Crash as a star struck Second Life newbie. It fit into this new reality and had that bleeding edge feel.
The dystopic story line was easy to follow relative to the newly discovered metaverse. Some of the complex supporting ancient historical physolphy tended to drag, but he made all the pieces fit the intricate jigsaw for an …
Anything by the great Neal Stephenson is worth a read, but if you’re not familiar with his work, start with this semi-post apocalyptic… I don’t know if I’d call it a comedy, but there are certainly some hilarious moments among the very heavy satire. Enjoy!
If you are a NS fan, this is a must.
Brilliant! In Snow Crash, Stephenson prophetically writes about the augmented reality and life in cyberspace 20 years before they were even possible and weave a fantastic story and characters in the process.