Neal Stephenson PB Snow Crash Cyberpunk 0553562614

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Condition:	Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitions- opens in a new window or tab ... Read moreabout the condition	ISBN-10:	0553562614
Language:	English	ISBN-13:	9780553562613
Subject:	Science Fiction	Author:	Neal Stephenson
Topic:	cyberpunk	Format:	Mass Market, Book
Country of Manufacture:	Canada	Publication Year:	1993

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Synopsis
Neal Stephenson staked out a piece of William Gibson's cyberterritory in this 90s slacker-hacker novel. In a Balkanized America run entirely by corporations, a computer hacker moonlighting as a pizza delivery guy and a tough young female courier take on a glass-knife-wielding Aleut who possesses a nuclear bomb and a mogul planning to use ancient Sumerian texts to rewrite the software in everyone's brains. This cult classic takes on--among other topics--neurolinguistics, online etiquette, televangelism, thrasher culture, corporate and civil bureaucracy, and the legendary antecedents of the Tower of Babel. SNOW CRASH was Stephenson's breakout book, and it was the earliest of his works to display his interest in language and cryptography, both of which he explores further in his massive, somewhat more mainstream CRYPTONOMICON and his BAROQUE CYCLE series. 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 Crashis such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it 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.Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.
Product Identifiers
ISBN-10	0553562614
ISBN-13	9780553562613

Key Details
Author	Neal Stephenson
Number Of Pages	480 pages
Publication Date	1993-04-01
Language	English
Publisher	Random House Publishing Group

Additional Details
Illustrated	N

Dimensions
Weight	8.2 Oz
Height	1.3 In.
Width	4.2 In.
Length	6.9 In.

Target Audience
Group	Trade

Classification Method
LCCN	91-045453
Dewey Decimal	FIC
Dewey Edition	21

Publisher's Note
In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies, 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 cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it 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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.
Reviews
"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." --The New York Times Book Review. "Snow Crash takes on a whole slew of nasty contemporary trends and extrapolates them hilariously into a pessimistic and unlikely newar future... this is one book to chill out with this summer." --Mondo 2000. "Stylish noir extrapolation becomes gloriously witty social satire... savor Stephenson's delicious prose and cheerfully impudent wit. Cyberpunk isn't dead -- it has just (belatedly) developed a sense of humor." --Locus. "A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Neal Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip and will become a major force in American writing." -- Timothy Leary. "A cross betweenNeuromancer and Thomas Pynchon'sVineland. This is no mere hyperbole." --San Francisco Bay Guardian. "Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." -- William Gibson.

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SNOW CRASH

NEAL STEPHENSON

In the near future, Americans excel at only two things:

writing software and delivering pizza in less than 30 minutes.

Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality?

But now a strange new computer virus called Snow Crash has invaded even this last sanctuary of liberty.

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:

a pizza delivery guy is a warrior prince dude in the Metaverse.

A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.

Cult cyber novel of the nineties. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-437.

Bantam Spectra paperback 1992. Cover illo by Bruce Jensen. Fine- appears unread.

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