SNOW CRASH
Language: English
Published by Del Rey [Random House], New York, 2022
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Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Expanded edition. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse,' 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. This 30th anniversary edition adds a "foreword" by Stephenson and a pair of scripts featuring Lagos, a "big part" of the "back story of how the world of SNOW CRASH came into existence." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#175438). …
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- Title
- SNOW CRASH
- Author
- Stephenson, Neal
- Publisher
- Del Rey [Random House], New York
- Publication year
- 2022
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 059359973X
- ISBN 13
- 9780593599730
- Seller catalogs
- Computers, Tale of the Future, Utopian Literature
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.
But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state).
Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
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