by upzmtn
Type: fiction
Status: —
Author: Neal Stephenson
2008-07-18
book
Snowcrash
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 Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible
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by deitybob
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Neal Stephenson
Description: Snow Crash is pretty much the best cyber-punk thing ever including movies and whatnot. Plus,...
2007-10-09
by damajackal
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Author: Neal Stephenson
Description: Snow Crash is pretty much the best cyber-punk thing ever including movies and whatnot. Plus,...
2007-08-22
by mark
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Neal Stephenson
Description: Snow Crash roars along, as stuffed with ideas as it is with action, through the days of the...
2006-11-14
Type: fiction
Status: on hold
Author: Neal Stephenson
Description: Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia...
2006-03-06
by conradrader
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Neal Stephenson
Tags: cyberpunk science_fiction
2006-02-01
by r3v
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Neal Stephenson
Tags: cyberpunk fiction scifi contemporary
2006-01-12
