Description
Title: Snow Crash
Author: STEPHENSON NEAL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/06/2011
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
A new look for cult author Stephenson’s unstoppable sci-fi classic
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse – cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street – the Metaverse’s main drag – is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus – and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.
Which is really bad news for Hiro – freelance hacker and the Metaverse’s best swordfighter (he wrote the code) – and Y. T. – skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl – because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .
Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.
ISBN: 9780241953181
Weight: 308g
Dimension: 197mm X 128mm
Pages: 448
Edition: 01