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Snow Crash

byNeal Stephenson

THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIALAfter the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson exploreslinguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future.'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed'Washington Post'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair

Language

en

Published on

24/11/2022

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241629833

Who is this book for? Readers interested in cyberpunk, virtual reality, and speculative fiction.

Topics Technology and HumanitySurvivalIdentity
MoodHumorous, Suspenseful
HumorOccasional Humor
ViolenceModerate

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