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Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
 

Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Neal Stephenson

From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter... (read more)

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Tien H
  • Rated 4 stars

“A suprisingly enjoyable read! I've read one of his books before (Cryptonomicon) and it was really heavy going. This book however was fast-paced and you don't really need to understand too many technical terms to understand the plot.

Hiro Protagonist: Last of the freelance hackers; Greatest sword fighter in the world; Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation. What was he doing delivering pizzas for the Mafia? The world is a completely different place. And the Metaverse (a very very...”

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  • Ocellnuri

    ocellnuri said:

    “I'm amazed at the fact that this book was written so long ago (1993) and hits so many aspects of internet culture square on the head. Virtual worlds like Second Life and programming technologies we use to organize the web are just a few short steps away from the situations described in the story.”

    posted Saturday, June 14 2008
  • Zeheva

    zeheva said:

    “Loved this one, it was a fantastic piece of speculative fiction. I liked the way that the author drew on current social and political trends to make some pretty interesting guesses at what will happen in the not so different future.”

    posted Tuesday, May 27 2008
  • Alexey V

    alexey v said:

    “Good start, but the "drive" is lost somewhere in the middle of the book. The ending is purely artificial, some story lines are just forgotten by the author.”

    posted Saturday, March 22 2008
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