Del Rey Snow Crash

Author: neal stephenson Publisher: del rey usa Language: english Binding: paperback Özet: one of time'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 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 cosonostra pizza inc., but in the metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the mystery 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 for snow crash [snow crash is] a cross between neuromancer and thomas pynchon's vineland. 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