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Loading... Snow Crash (1992)by Neal Stephenson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wahnsinnig viel Wissen - über Programmieren, Geschichte, die Bibel... - kombiniert mit einer grandiosen Voraussicht. Leider manchmal etwas zu ausführlich und die Szenen im Metaverse teilweise arg brutal. ( ) This book was pretty good. Started off a little slow and disjointed, but as you learn more and more of what's going on it all starts fitting together. Some familiar tropes with the Metaverse and a sword-wielding hacker, but a lot of moving parts throughout the book and an interesting theory/idea to build a plot around.
Hiro Protagonist (who has chosen his own name, of course) turns out to be entertaining company, and Mr. Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific. Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel. A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole. Belongs to Publisher SeriesGoldmann (45302) Is contained inContainsHas as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
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HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired) In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzos CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus thats 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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . youll recognize it immediately. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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