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Snow Crash Paperback – May 2, 2000

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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.

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“[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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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. --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition.

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One of the added pleasures of the success of Stephenson's recent books (Cryptonomicon, etc.) is this better-late-than-never audio version of his third (and arguably best) novel, which continues to be a paperback bestseller. Snow Crash (1992), which helped earn the word "cyberpunk" a place in history, is set in the not-too-distant future where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the U.S. is a vast, mall-like patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and young Hiro Protagonist (yes, that's the hero protagonist's name) uses his computer game wizardry and pizza delivering skills to combat a deadly new designer drug (and computer virus) called Snow Crash. Actor/writer Davis is the ideal choice for bringing Stephenson's crackling, poetic language to life, and the author-approved abridgement sacrifices none of his hilariously skewed, eminently believable vision a stew of concepts from Sumerian myth to Japanese anime of the commercially sponsored fate that sits waiting in a giant shopping mall, coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Based on the Bantam Doubleday Dell paperback.

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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553380958
ISBN-13: 978-0553380958
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 1,485 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Humorous
- #71 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Cyberpunk
- #95 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction

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Coins the term "avatar", depicts the horror of anarcho-capitalism

ByPeter B. NelsonVINE VOICEon December 3, 2016

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I first read this in 2016, somehow missing out for nearly 25 years. Reading it after playing World of Warcraft and countless other MMORPG games, it's mind blowing to realize it was written before those existed. Stephenson foresaw them and whipped up a ripping yarn (to fix a phetamor). The ancient Sumerian mysticism goes over the top, imho, but for the most part Snow Crash astounds with its prescience. It's one of those rare books that manages to be thought-provoking and page-turning at the same time. It showed up on Samuel Goldman's 2013 list of "10 Sci Fi and Fantasy Works Every Conservative Should Read" for its convincing depiction of the horror that is anarcho-capitalism. For what that's worth.