Snow Crash

ISBN-13: 9780553380958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 576 str.

Neal Stephenson

Opis

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, 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

Recenzje

One of the most popular sci-fi books of all time . . . It stands as a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement. Wired

Stephenson s cult classic has become canon in Silicon Valley, where a host of engineers, entrepreneurs, futurists, and assorted computer geeks . . . still revere Snow Crash as a remarkably prescient vision of today s tech landscape. Vanity Fair

Hip, surreal, distressingly funny . . . Neal Stephenson is a crafty plotter and a wry writer. The Des Moines Register

[Snow Crash] not only made the name of its author Neal Stephenson, it elevated him to the status of a technological Nostradamus. Open Culture

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

O autorze

Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open metaverse platform.