Snow Crash
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241629833
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99

Snow Crash

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Paperback
17 Jan 2023
Paperback
12 Sep 2011
EBook
27 Oct 1994
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The 30th anniversary edition of the modern classic that popularised the term 'metaverse', exploring (in an eerily prescient way) computer science, the advance of technology, wealth inequality, politics and philosophy

In the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons - there is a new drug available: Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, it also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.

This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241629833
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99
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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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