Snow Crash
  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241953181
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.95

Snow Crash

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17 Jan 2023
Paperback
12 Sep 2011
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27 Oct 1994
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A new look for cult author Stephenson's unstoppable sci-fi classic

After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse - 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. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.
Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y. T. - skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl - because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .
Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.
  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241953181
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.95
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About the author

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon; The Diamond Age; Snow Crash, which was named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels; and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Also by Neal Stephenson

Cobweb
The System Of The World
The Confusion
Quicksilver
Interface
Zodiac
Cryptonomicon
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Praise for Snow Crash

Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed

Washington Post

A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip

Timothy Leary

Brilliantly realized. Stephenson [is] an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow

The New York Times

A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action

Guardian
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