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The classic novel, limited to only 500 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author
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From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.
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"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." -- William Gibson.
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.
"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." -- The New York Times Book 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.
"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.
"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.
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- PublisherSubterranean
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 159606157X
- ISBN 13 9781596061576
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages472
- IllustratorPatrick Arrasmith
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Snow Crash (SIGNED)
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Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2008
ISBN 10: 159606157X
ISBN 13: 9781596061576
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Patrick Arrasmith (illustrator). 489 pages, 8vo. Special Signed Edition limited to 500 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is copy 160. SIGNED by Neal Stephenson on limited page. Includes slipcase. Minor shelfwear. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 064560
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ISBN 10: 159606157X
ISBN 13: 9781596061576
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new. Of 526 numbered and lettered copies, this copy is number 200. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where he must use his hacker skills to fight a deadly new computer virus. Stephenson's first SF novel (he had previously written a couple of environmentalist thrillers), and something of a trendy cult book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 332. "The action, and there's a lot of noisy action, is powered by a conspiracy involving a Secret History of the last 4000 years, the Tower of Babel, a cult predating the Babylonians, and much else . Knowing and acerbic, a dazzling hyperkinetic dance down the mean streets of cyberspace and back up again into the sunlight." - Paul McAuley, Interzone. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with cloth slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 015463
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