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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Snow Crash
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it 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. Review:"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." — The New York Times Book Review. Review:"Snow Crash takes on a whole slew of nasty contemporary trends and extrapolates them hilariously into a pessimistic and unlikely newar future... this is one book to chill out with this summer." — Mondo 2000. Review:"Stylish noir extrapolation becomes gloriously witty social satire... savor Stephenson's delicious prose and cheerfully impudent wit. Cyberpunk isn't dead — it has just (belatedly) developed a sense of humor." --Locus. Review:"A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Neal Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip and will become a major force in American writing." - Timothy Leary. Review:"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole." — San Francisco Bay Guardian. Review:"Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." William Gibson. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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