Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
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- Kustantaja: Spectra Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780553380958
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One of Time s 100 best English-language novels A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous you ll recognize it immediately 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 CrashSnow 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'