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From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash,
Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is
a
world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists
as
a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the
Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's
hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker,
samurai swordsman, and pizza- delivery driver. When his best friend fries
his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful,
brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that
to
do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel,
Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a
postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed
of
television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a
future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor's Recommended Book
This is the high-octane cyberpunk adventure that put Neal Stephenson on
the science fiction map, and the first 30 pages alone are worth the
purchase price.It conjures a future world where the Net is virtual and
avatars are the Entrée into the "metaverse." But something called
"snow
crash" is rezzing out many of the metaverse's top personalities and
threatening an infocalypse. Enter Hiro Protagonist, pizza delivery
man,sword fighter extraordinaire, and supreme hacker. Hiro and teenage
girl/super skate-punk Y.T. are probably the only ones who can save the
day, but only if they can keep from getting killed by both the Mafia and
a
psychopath armed with his own atomic bomb.
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From Kirkus Reviews , March 15, 1992
After terminally cute campus high-jinks (The Big U) and a smug but
attention-grabbing eco-thriller (Zodiac), Stephenson leaps into
near-future Gibsonian cyberpunk--with predictably mixed results. The
familiar-sounding backdrop: The US government has been sold off;
businesses are divided up into autonomous franchises (``franchulates'')
visited by kids from the heavily protected independent ``Burbclaves'';
a
computer-generated ``metaverse'' is populated by hackers and roving
commercials. Hiro Protagonist, freelance computer hacker, world's
greatest swordsman, and stringer for the privatized CIA, delivers pizzas
for the Mafia--until his mentor Da5id is blasted by Snow Crash, a curious
new drug capable of crashing both computers and hackers. Hiro joins
forces with freelance skateboard courier Y.T. to investigate. It emerges
that Snow Crash is both a drug and a virus: it destroyed ancient Sumeria
by randomizing their language to create Babel; its modern victims speak
in tongues, lose their critical faculties, and are easily brainwashed.
Eventually the usual conspiracy to take over the world emerges; it's led
by media mogul L. Bob Rife, the Rev. Wayne's Pearly Gates religious
franchulate, and vengeful nuclear terrorist Raven. The cultural-linguistic
material has intrinsic interest, but its connections with cyberpunk and
computer-reality seem more than a little forced. The flashy, snappy
delivery fails to compensate for the uninhabited blandness of the
characters. And despite the many clever embellishments, none of the
above is as original as Stephenson seems to think. An entertaining entry
that would have benefitted from a more rigorous attention to the basics.
-- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
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Book Description of Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash by Neal
Stephenson.
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.
Synopsis of Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
With a wave of critical acclaim and an unusually strong performance in
trade paperback, Snow Crash is poised to break out in mass market. Set
in near-future Los Angeles, this strange, exciting novel takes readers
on
an adventure in a post-modern landscape that mirrors our contemporary
psyche. TP: Bantam.
Synopsis of Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
With the strange new designer drug, Snow Crash, making zombies of
nearly everyone and a deadly computer virus striking down hackers, Hiro
Protagonist, the last of the free-lance hackers, comes to the rescue.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
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From the Publisher
"A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This
is no mere hyperbole." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." --
William Gibson.
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.
"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.
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Stephenson.
"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 between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This
is no mere hyperbole." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." --
William Gibson.
Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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