Snow Crash - Brossura

Stephenson, Neal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553562614 ISBN 13: 9780553562613

Casa editrice: Spectra, 1993

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

"Brilliantly realized...  Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an  onrushing tomorrow." -- The New York Times  Book Review.

"Snow Crash takes on a  whole slew of nasty contemporary trends and  extrapolates them hilariously into a pessimistic and  unlikely newar future... this is one book to chill  out with this summer." -- Mondo  2000.

"Stylish noir extrapolation becomes  gloriously witty social satire... savor Stephenson's  delicious prose and cheerfully impudent wit.  Cyberpunk isn't dead -- it has just (belatedly)  developed a sense of humor."  --Locus.

"A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive,  supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow  that is already happening. Neal Stephenson is  intelligent, perceptive, hip and will become a major  force in American writing." -- Timothy Leary.

"A cross between Neuromancer  and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.  This is no mere hyperbole." -- San  Francisco Bay Guardian.  

"Fast-forwarded free-style mall mythology for the 21st Century."  -- William Gibson.

L'autore:

Neal Stephenson issues from a clan of rootless, itinerant hardscience and engineering professors (mostly Pac-10, Big 10, and Big 8 with the occasional wild strain of Ivy). He began his higher education as a physics major, then switched to geography when it appeared that this would enable him to scam more free time on his university’s mainframe computer. When he graduated and discovered, to his perplexity, that there were no jobs for inexperienced physicist-geographers, he began to look into alternative pursuits such as working on cars, unimaginably stupid agricultural labor, and writing novels. His first novel, The Big U, was published in 1984 and vanished without a trace. His second novel, Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller, came out in 1988 and quickly developed a cult following among water-pollution-control engineers. It was also enjoyed, though rarely bought, by many radical environmentalists. Snow Crash was written in the years 1988 through 1991 as the author listened to a great deal of loud, relentless, depressing music.

Mr. Stephenson now resides in a comfortable home in the western hemisphere and spends all of his time trying to retrofit an office into its generally dark, unlevel, and asbestos-laden basement so that he can attempt to write more novels. Despite the tremendous amounts of time he devotes to writing, playing with computers, listening to speed metal, Rollerblading, and pounding nails, he is a flawless husband, parent, neighbor, and all-around human being.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Spectra
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553562614
• ISBN 13: 9780553562613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480