“Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.” -William Gibson Product Details This is no mere hyperbole.” - The San Francisco Bay Guardian “A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland.

“ not only made the name of its author Neal Stephenson, it elevated him to the status of a technological Nostradamus.” - Open Culture Neal Stephenson is a crafty plotter and a wry writer.” - The Des Moines Register still revere Snow Crash as a remarkably prescient vision of today’s tech landscape.” - Vanity Fair “Stephenson’s cult classic has become canon in Silicon Valley, where a host of engineers, entrepreneurs, futurists, and assorted computer geeks. It stands as a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement.” - Wired “One of the most popular sci-fi books of all time. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.īut in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The “brilliantly realized” ( The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators

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