Snow Crash
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is presented in this 30th Anniversary New Edition published by Penguin Books in 2022. This edition features new, never-before-published material and spans 565 pages. The narrative explores a future shaped by the Metaverse, a digital realm where avatars and software daemons interact. The story follows Hiro, a freelance hacker and skilled swordfighter, alongside Y. T., a skateboard courier, as they confront a dangerous cyberdrug known as Snow Crash, which threatens both the digital and real worlds.
Readers will find a blend of action and adventure as the protagonists delve into the origins of language and its connection to an ancient Sumerian priesthood. The book addresses themes of linguistics, computer science, and the implications of technology in a dystopian setting. This edition invites exploration of the fast-approaching future through a thrilling narrative that intertwines elements of fantasy and hard science fiction, making it a significant work in the cyberpunk genre.
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THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
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 that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.
This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse’s best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores
linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future.
‘Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century’ William Gibson
‘Brilliantly realized’ New York Times Book Review
‘Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed’ Washington Post
‘A remarkably prescient vision of today’s tech landscape’ Vanity Fair
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