SUMMARY: Only once in a great while doesnbsp;nbsp;a writer come along who defies comparison -- anbsp;nbsp;writer so original he redefines the way we look atnbsp;nbsp;the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer andnbsp;nbsp;Snow Crash is such a novel, weavingnbsp;nbsp;virtual reality, Sumerian myth
Snow crash
β Scribed by Stephenson, Neal
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada;Del Rey
- Year
- 2000;2017
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 290 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0553380958
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparisonβa 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 Enzoβs CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse heβs a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thatβs 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 outrageousβ¦youβll recognize it immediately.
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