Snow Crash [Paperback]

One ofTime’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 andSnow Crashis 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 forSnow Crash

“[Snow Crashis] a cross betweenNeuromancerand Thomas Pynchon’sVineland. 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“Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel.”—Los Angeles Reader

“[Snow Crashis] a cross betweenNeuromancerand Thomas Pynchon’sVineland. This is no mere hyperbole.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
 
“Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.”—William Gibson
 
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