Snow Crash Unknown - 2001

Name: Snow Crash
Price: 14.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Jonathan Stephenson
ISBN: 9781586211110

de Stephenson, Neal

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Resumen

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 and Snow Crash is 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 CosaNostra 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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately. (Source: [Goodreads][1]) [1]: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash

Información de la editorial

From the opening sentence of this genre-defining cyberpunk novel, the listener is plunged into the not-too-distant future. Here, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. So when his best friend freaks out on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, it's Hiro to the rescue. This is mind-altering, 21st-century adventure that interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to glimpses of a postmodern society on the verge of collapse -- a porthole into a future so bizarre it just may be possible.