One of Time magazines 100 alltime best Englishlanguage novels. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparisona writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. 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. 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 neonlit streets on a searchanddestroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mindaltering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...youll recognize it immediately.
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