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Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson
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Description for Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
Paperback. The Metaverse is cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316.
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241953181
SKU
9780241953181
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Reviews for Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more