Snow Crash
by Stephenson, Neal
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0553351923
- ISBN 13
- 9780553351927
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Spectra Book, 1992. First Paperback edition. Pamphlet. Very Good+. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 441pp. This is the first paperback edition, published simultaneously with the rare hardcover ediiton, with full number line ending in 1. There is a small stain to the top of the back cover. Mild age toning to page edges. Also included is a small pamphlet "SNOCRASH.TXT 19-Jun-93 3:09p" comprising 6 pages of email conversations discussing the book from 1993.
Synopsis
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer.
Reviews
On Nov 11 2019, a reader said:
In one of the most perceivable dystopian futures that I can imagine, Hiro is everything.
Honestly, I'm not looking for the money. I am registering an amount because your own review of this book captures the fine points so well. Neal Stevenson's writing in Snow Crash is so visceral and complex, that you have no choice but to become immersed in the world he creates. It fires your brain for weeks after the read, if not longer. It takes time to wrap one's head around his world and language, and his execution is flawless.
This book is at pleat as important as Stranger in a Strange Land.
10/10 Worth the read
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Details
- Seller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 73884
- Title
- Snow Crash
- Author
- Stephenson, Neal
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553351923
- ISBN 13
- 9780553351927
- Publisher
- Bantam Spectra Book
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Cyberpunk
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...