Snow Crash: A Novel

Snow Crash: A Novel

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<b>One of <i>Time</i>’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you’ll recognize it immediately</b><br><br> 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 <i>Snow Crash</i> 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.<br> <b><br> </b>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.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Snow Crash</i></b><br><br>“[<i>Snow Crash</i> is] a cross between <i>Neuromancer</i> and Thomas Pynchon’s <i>Vineland</i>. This is no mere hyperbole.”<b>—<i>The San Francisco Bay Guardian</i></b><br><br> “Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.”<b>—William Gibson</b><br><br> “Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”<b><i>—The New York Times Book Review</i></b>