From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.

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Enjoy :)

Received in the post yesterday from Kislany in exchange for Dead Lines. Thank you; planning to read it after, oooh, three others.

Fabulous stuff!

I loved it and was constantly impressed by the imagination and how prophetic it all seemed... especially considering it was written between 1988 and 1991 (pre-internet).

Gave to a work colleague...

Released as part of the "Keep Them Moving Challenge 2006".