Snow Crash : a novel
Stephenson, Neal2022
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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
Main title:
Snow Crash : a novel / Neal Stephenson.
Author:
Stephenson, Neal, author
Edition:
30th anniversary edition.
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
viii, 565 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This edition originally published: New York: Del Ray.
ISBN:
9780241629833 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3569.T3868
Local class:
AFSFFF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3225209
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