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Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Brand
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MPN
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ISBN
9780553380958
Book Title
Snow Crash : a Novel
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Item Length
8.2 in
Publication Year
2000
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Neal Stephenson
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
576 Pages
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Publisher
Random House Worlds
ISBN-10
0553380958
ISBN-13
9780553380958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1684348

Product Key Features

Book Title
Snow Crash : a Novel
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Author
Neal Stephenson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

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Trade
LCCN
2009-291134
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."- Los Angeles Reader "A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland . This is no mere hyperbole."- San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."-William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."- New York Times Book Review, "Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."-Los Angeles Reader "A cross betweenNeuromancerand Thomas Pynchon'sVineland. This is no mere hyperbole."-San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."-William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."-New York Times Book Review, "Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel." --Los Angeles Reader "A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole." --San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." --William Gibson "Brilliantly realized...Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." --The New York Times Book Review Look for other Bantam Spectra novels by Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age "(Stephenson) has gotten even better. The Diamond Age envisions the next century as brilliantly as Snow Crash did the day after tomorrow." --Newsweek "The Diamond Age establishes Neal Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age....At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary." --USA Today Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller "(Stephenson) captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here." --The Washington Post
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Synopsis
The "brilliantly realized" ( The New York Times Book Review ) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He'll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination., In this mind-altering romp--where the term "Metaverse" was first coined--you'll experience a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you'll recognize it immediately - One of Time 's 100 best English-language novels 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. Praise for Snow Crash "[ 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, 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. Praise for Snow Crash " 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
LC Classification Number
PS3569.T3868S65 2008

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      Great speculative science fiction, and a fairly large but not overwhelmingly huge cast of interesting characters. Futuristic and gritty, and still mind-blowing, all at the same time. Cool motorcycles, sword fights, super-skateboards, stylized cyberspace, evil guys, with a healthy dose of Mesopotamian legend/pseudo-history thrown in. This was my first Stephenson novel, and have been re-reading it over the years and recommend it to friends when I can (then try to buy a new book when my friends are slow in giving it back!)

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      There is something about Neal Stephenson's writing that really intrigues me. His style is brilliant, unique, and at the same time a page turner. The plot is very believable as are the characters. I've been a bibliophile for about 40 years and he stands in my top ten.

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