Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow." - The New York Times Book Review. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous. 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. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. 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. 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. "Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century." - William Gibson.
This is no mere hyperbole." - San Francisco Bay Guardian. "A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.
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