"This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?"
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality?
In a major city, the size of a dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited only by the imagination. But now a strange new computer virus called Snow Crash is striking down hackers everywhere, leaving an unlikely young pizza delivery man as humankind's last best hope.
The perfect cyberpunk sci-fi read, Snow Crash is an equally worthy successor to William Gibson's Neuromancer and predecessor to Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.
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What readers are saying about Snow Crash:
'It's hard to believe Neal wrote his books when the published date claims. He's always so right about the future, and I keep on hoping he's so wrong' Goodreads Reader Review
'Snow Crash is to Books as The Matrix is to movies (with only the absolute BEST parts of Tron and Da Vinci Code thrown in)' Goodreads Reader Review
'Loved it! Can't recommend it highly enough. Everyone should read this book. Go do it. Do it now. It's just awesome. You won't regret it' Goodreads Reader Review
'It's hilarious and mind-blowing. From the first page to the last, I was amazed at just how much influence this book has had on TV, movies, etc.' Goodreads Reader Review
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241953181
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 300 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 32 mm
Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action - Guardian
A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Brilliantly realized. Stephenson [is] an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow - The New York Times
A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip - Timothy Leary
Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed - Washington Post
I don't usually find myself laughing out load when reading, but this book really had me, I would find myself chuckling on my own and that would make me laugh even more.
The book is very fast and exciting and a...
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Hiro has resigned from his job as a pizza delivery guy, and is going back to his first career as a tech scavenger. He is the creator of The Black Sun, a virtual street, and wrote the rule book for the metaverse. There... More
This is one of the best cyberpunk/dystopian-style sci-fi novels that I've read; it's got some great, vivid detail about a William Gibson-esque near-future L.A., which has been divided up into dozens of... More
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