Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson staked out a piece of William Gibson's cyberterritory in this 90s slacker-hacker novel. In a Balkanized America run entirely by corporations, a computer hacker moonlighting as a pizza delivery guy and a tough young female courier take on a glass-knife-wielding Aleut who possesses a nuclear bomb and a mogul planning to use ancient Sumerian texts to rewrite the software in everyone's brains. This cult classic takes on--among other topics--neurolinguistics, online etiquette, televangelism, thrasher culture, corporate and civil bureaucracy, and the legendary antecedents of the Tower of Babel. SNOW CRASH was Stephenson's breakout book, and it was the earliest of his works to display his interest in language and cryptography, both of which he explores further in his massive, somewhat more mainstream CRYPTONOMICON and his BAROQUE CYCLE series.

Editions of Snow Crash

ISBN 9780553562613	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Books	Date 1993	Price $3.50	GOOD CONDITION
ISBN 9781596061576	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Subterranean	Date 2008	Price None Available
ISBN 9780553351927	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Books	Date 1992	Price $12.50
ISBN 9780553088533	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group	Date 1992	Price CAD $67.95	Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
ISBN 9780553380958	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Bantam Dell Pub Group	Date 2000	Price $1.52
ISBN 9781586211110	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Hachette Audio	Date 2001	Price $6.99
ISBN 9781586211134	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Hachette Audio	Date 2001	Price $14.00	Good
ISBN 9780613361620	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 2001	Price None Available

Publisher Notes

In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.

Media Reviews

"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."

First Line

"The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books."

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