![]() ![]() "Brilliantly realized.Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous.you'll recognize it immediately. 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. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza, Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. 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. Recently resigned from his job as the coolest samurai sword-toting pizza-delivery guy in the world, Hiro has had to fall back on his old hi-tech scavenger ways. ![]() Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]() 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. Penguin Books Limited, 1993 - Fiction - 448 pages. ![]()
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