Snow Crash - Stephenson, Neal
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In this mind-altering romp where the term Metaverse was first coined you ll experience a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you ll recognize it immediately One of Time s 100 best English-language novels
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 cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In this mind-altering romp where the term Metaverse was first coined you ll experience a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you ll recognize it immediately One of Time s 100 best English-language novels

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 cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in 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.

Praise for Snow Crash

[Snow Crash is] a cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon s Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole. The San Francisco Bay Guardian

Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century. William Gibson

Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. The New York Times Book Review
Autorenporträt
Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open metaverse platform.
Rezensionen
Stephenson excels in marrying geekspeak with riotous action Guardian