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Snow Crash. Paperback – June 1, 2002

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Los Angeles, eines nicht zu fernen Tages: Hiro Protagonist, ein Starprogrammierer und Pizzakurier, kommt einer Verschwörung auf die Spur, die sowohl in der realen Welt als auch im virtuellen Raum immer mehr Todesopfer fordert. Hiro taucht als Schwertkämpfer in die Cyberwelt der Zukunft ein, um dort einen Schurken aus ferner Vergangenheit zu besiegen und die »Infokalypse« zu verhindern...

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June 1, 2002
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344245302X
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978-3442453023
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Goldmann (June 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ German
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 344245302X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3442453023
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds

Best Sellers Rank: #7,337,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.

Born in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum) Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Martin Mittring

Good read, expected more on the MetaVerse

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 28, 2017

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Good read, not much about VR, the book coined the MetaVerse so I was expecting more on that.
ideas on hacking human brains.

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Roxx Ram

More definition needed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2010

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Well, I opened up the pages and I found something awesome... it was entirely in german! The description didn't mention it was in german, but I plan on using this version alongside an american version I own for learning by transliteration :D

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Troubled in Tupelo

THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2013

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I purchased this on my phone and will be returning it since I don't speak German. Also, it took quite some time to get to its destination. The novel Snow Crash is excellent though.

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M. Brookes

Excellent cyberpunk adventure

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2014

This is a fun cyberpunk adventure which I enjoyed reading a lot. The story takes place in two worlds, the first is the physical world which has changed considerably from the one we know. The land has been divided up into franchises owned by corporations, churches and the Federal government. Each franchise has their own laws with enforcement provided by corporations and in one case automated systems (Fido is very cool).

The other world is the metaverse, a 3D internet where people interact through avatars, in many ways it resembles the physical world but for hackers the rules can be different.

The story concerns a virus that crashes computer systems, but also human minds or more specifically hacker minds. The story revolves around two central characters, the first is Hiro, a Katana wielding hacker who also delivers pizza in the real world for the Mafia. The other is a young girl Y T, who is a courier on an air board. Together they investigate and discover a plot to control people's minds.

For me the best part of the book is some of the ideas it explores, the main one being the linguistic virus that is the core of the story. There's some excellent and interesting thinking behind this that was a joy to unravel. The ideas for the world were also fascinating, for example the floating city built around an aircraft carrier that sails around the Pacific Ocean.

The pacing of the story is spot on and once it gets started clips along at a decent pace, there's a decent mix of characters (Raven is a fun bad guy) and it's well written. Overall an excellent read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2013

3.5 stars. Equal parts ridiculous but cool. Some parts of the novel really dragged, but it more than made up for it with some imaginative scenes and concepts. Perhaps most amazing the story managed to make sense in the end despite making almost no sense to me in the middle of the story, so much so that I nearly gave up on it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2013

I am not cursing, but I am zero percent German and therefore can not read it. They shold be in English! However I liked the sample.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2006

Only Neal Stephenson can bring out a relationship between Ancient Sumerian and binary, and that connection causes knowing either one well to make a person susceptible to control by others. Only he could get away with giving the main character a name like Hero Protagonist. This Book is full of absurdities, yet Neal Stephenson manages to pull them off with grace and beauty. In a future vaguely similar William Gibson's, Hero try's to find out why an old colleague has gone catatonic and who caused it, and also hopes to renew a romantic relationship in the process, not to mention make a few bucks on the way.

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C. Weaver

Great Book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2006

If you want to know the future of MMO games, then this is a must read.

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Mdk

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 13, 2015

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Unfortunately this book is in German. I don't speak German. Should've checked.

Dion

Cyberpunk at its best... und so aktuell, dass man dem Buch sein Alter kaum glauben mag!

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 3, 2016

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Die nicht allzu ferne Zukunft: Die Vereinigten Staaten sind zerfallen, unzählige unabhängige Enklaven aus ethnischen Minderheiten, multinationalen Konzernen, kriminellen Banden, religiösen Gruppen und Institutionen der Restregierung haben ihren Platz eingenommen. Mittendrin kreuzen sich die Wege von Hiro Protagonist, einem freiberuflichen Hacker und Pizzalieferanten im Dienste von Cosa Nostra Pizzas, der mit seinem Leben für die Zustellung innerhalb von 30 Minuten haftet, und Y.T., einer 15 Jahre alten Göre, die für einen Kurierdienst auf dem Skateboard unterwegs ist. Eher unfreiwillig werden beide in die Machenschaften eines Medienmoguls verstrickt, der mittels einer ganz neuen Art der Informationsübermittlung (hier soll nicht zu viel verraten werden) die Weltherrschaft an sich reißen möchte.

Stephenson gelang mit "Snow Crash" eine brilliante, grelle Gesellschaftssatire, bei der trotz aller Komik eine spannende Geschichte erzählt wird und sich die einzelnen Elemente der Handlung wie eine Zwiebelschale aus der Sicht der Hauptpersonen nur nach und nach enthüllen. Dass der Autor es schafft, unzählige soziologische und historische Elemente (unter anderem sumerische Mythologie!) zu einem stimmigen Ganzen zu verbinden, zeugt ebenso von seiner Kreativität wie die Tatsache, dass er etliche heute übliche Technologien bereits 1992 vorausgeahnt hat - er erfand nicht nur den Begriff "Avatar" als Bezeichnung für ein virtuelles Alter Ego, in seinem Roman existiert beispielsweise auch eine Software namens "Erde", die eine Darstellung der Erde aus dem Weltall beinhaltet, auf die man dann von oben herunterzoomen kann... Dabei hat Stephenson die technischen und sozialen Zusammenhänge so detailliert durchdacht, dass seine Beschreibung der (in dieser Form hoffentlich nicht eintretenden) Zukunft jederzeit trotz der Überzeichnung unglaublich lebendig und stimmig wirkt.

Das Erzähltempo ist durchweg hoch, die Darstellung schrill und Stephensons beißender Zynismus in jeder Zeile zu spüren. Wer intelligente, sarkastische SF zu schätzen weiß, wird hier bestens bedient!

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Yan Tanafres

Schräg und abgefahren

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 1, 2014

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Eine Story, die vom Schreibstift vielleicht nicht jeden begeistert. Auch die Story ist speziell. Aber wer Rollenspiele mag und vor allem für Shadowrun Spieler ist das vielleicht eine Welt, die in diese Richtung geht.

Die Welt ist am Ende und stark zersplittert. Das "Böse" regiert und entscheidet, was getan wird. Aber was oder wer ist böse.

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Johannes Kirchhoff

Übersetzung & TB-Qualität mies

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 27, 2007

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Meines Erachtens ist dies eins seiner besten Bücher. Es ist hier ja auch schon viel darüber geschrieben worden - geniale (Zukunfts-) Ideen, witzige u. rasante Schreibweise. ALLERDINGS ist die deutsche Übersetzung schon ziemlich schlecht - das Original ist Anglophilen auf jeden Fall anempfohlen. Diese TB-Ausgabe ist auch in der Hinsicht nicht zu empfehlen, dass sie gerne mal ein paar Seiten verliert. Habe schon mehrere der Goldmann (Manhattan)-Ausgaben, die unter dieser schlechten Qualität leiden!

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Schlechte eBook Umsetzung, sonst ganz nett.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 24, 2013

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Das Buch selbst ist ganz lustig und hat einige nette Passagen, ist auf jeden Fall keine vergeudete Zeit.

Aber: Was mich wirklich die ganze Zeit genervt hat, ist die schlechte Kindle-Version. Es sieht so aus, als hätte man das gedruckte Buch einfach mit einer (zugegebenermassen guten) OCR-Software digitalisiert aber nichtmehr gegengelesen. Die meisten Fehler wären von jeder handelsüblichen Rechtschreibsoftware gefunden worden. Sowas bremst einfach im Lesefluss. Oft findet man z.B. "kk" statt "ck" in Wörtern, wahrscheinlich war da ein Zeilenumbruch in der Print-Ausgabe...

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