Product Overview
One of Times 100 best English-language novels A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageousyoull recognize it immediately
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparisona 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 Enzos CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thats 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 Pynchons 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
