Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. He'll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. That book anticipated and coined the term metaverse, a concept that 30. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.īut 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). We are quickly approaching the dystopian future that Neal Stephenson outlined in his 1992 best seller Snow Crash. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. Like many of Stephenson’s novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy. 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 lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. Author: Neal Stephenson Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Ships from: Sold by: List Price:18.00Details The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller.

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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 cyber-sensibility.

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 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.

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