PublishedPenguin Uk, September 2011 |
ISBN9780241953181 |
FormatSoftcover, 448 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.7cm |
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.
Robin has spent more than twenty years helping customers find their next book. His specialty is speculative fiction. He tries not to judge a book by its cover, but he’s a sucker for a good cover.
A wild ride where philosophy, cryptology and future politics collide in a city of meta-corps and metaverses. Surreal and funny yet subversively poignant.
