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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You really gotta be patient with this one. Stephenson just straight throws you into a future world and doesn’t really care how much you reel, trying to find your feet.
Me likey. Initially and finally, as a sort of whole…
Yeah, whatever, I’m biased.
However, the method has its disadvantages, obviously. I don’t know if he later on felt bad about …
Very original, really an inspiration to many authors who followed Stephenson’s lead.
Neal Stephenson has over the past few years become my favorite author and this unique book is one of my favorites.
Snowcrash is unlike anything else… but a great read!
A very plausible view of a dystopian future brought out with great skill, humor. A warning of a possible impending Hell.
It’s a good book but being a computer professional I have trouble with it. Guy uses a samurai sword in public with a video harness so he can’t see what he’s actually swinging towards. I didn’t buy it. But I’m clearly a minority.
You never know what’s going to happen next, and when it happens, it leaves you fascinated and wanting more. This book was way ahead of it’s time, before the internet was a common, everyday part of life. The author is brilliant at developing characters that seem believable within the extremely high tech fiction world he creates.
You can’t go wrong with Neal Stephenson. This one ranges from laugh out loud funny, to terrifying (if you are one of the characters), but mostly it is entertaining and thought provoking. Great read.
Kept me entertained the whole way through!
Don’t care for Stephenson, find him to be incoherent at times.
This is a classic. Read this book.
Like most Neal Stephenson novels, Snowcrash was an uphill slog; I frequently felt that things were going over my head. However, the premise of the story was totally unique and appealed to my dabbling in linguistics as well as virtual reality, fantasy role playing, computer security, and software development.
confusing.
One of the best S/F novels, particularly of the cyberpunk genre. I’ve read it multiple times and enjoy it each time I do so.
Smart Smart Smart. Without a doubt, one of the best sci-fi writers ever. Doesn’t hit the sweet spot every time but sure does here.
One of Stephenson’s earlier novels, “Snow Crash” is near-future dystopian science fiction set in an America where the Federal Government is reduced to enclaves of building full of technocrats, the CIA and Library of Congress have merged, privatized, and issued their own IPO, and life is dominated by franchises that have taken on the …
Although I am not tech savvy, I was fascinated by the wildly original tech creations in this book. Society and technology are taken to the furthest extremes of their current trajectories. Add a couple of well-drawn characters and a good guys vs bad guys story, and you get a well written, thoroughly enjoyable read.
A true classic where the author was truely ahead of his time. There are lines and scenes that will stick with you forever.
A non stop futuristic adventure. I enjoyed this book thoroughly whilst on vacation- a great read for that one rainy day, you know?
Copyright 1992. The author could not foresee how the 21st century was going to develop, but that is not important. It’s a good story nonetheless and well worth reading for anyone who is into cyberpunk or likes the books pf William Gibson.