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

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File Size: 3990 KB
Print Length: 480 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0241953189
Publisher: Spectra (August 26, 2003)
Publication Date: August 26, 2003
Sold by: Random House LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B000FBJCJE
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This is my first Stephenson book. I bought it for my son who is majoring in computer programming. The premise, that the human mind can be programmed using an ancient language, was too much of a stretch for me. The characters, cool exaggeration/extrapolation of the US society and of virtual reality in the future, hip slang and cultural word plays, and stream of flow action - easily made up for that. This was an entertaining read; I foresee reading this again.