Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - ISBN: 9780241629833
Paperback
Cyberpunk swordfighter & skater chase a mind-killing drug to save reality.

Snow Crash

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  • Paperback

    576 pages

  • Release Date

    17 January 2023

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Summary

The 30th anniversary edition of the modern classic that popularized the term ‘metaverse,’ exploring (in an eerily prescient way) computer science, the advance of technology, wealth inequality, politics, and philosophy.

In the Metaverse—cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons—there is a new drug available: Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, it also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.

This is bad news fo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241629833
ISBN-10:0241629837
Author:Neal Stephenson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Viking
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Release Date:17 January 2023
Weight:408g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 38mm
About The Author

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall; or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning … Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform.

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