Snow Crash
Registered by DavidBuice on 3/5/2009
3 journalers for this copy...
Left behind at the meetup last night so have picked it up to rabck/release elsewhere.
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Sent as a surprise rabck to another bookcrosser who has it on their wishlist.
Sent as a surprise rabck to another bookcrosser who has it on their wishlist.
Wow, thank you so much! I don't think I've ever received a surprise RABCK in the mail. :)
I'm very much looking forward to reading the book, as I've never before encountered something that includes two of my interests, computer science and assyriology, in one package. (I noticed that the author states on page 197 that at any given time, there are roughly 10 people in the world who can read Sumerian. Maybe this is true in the future world of the novel, but in the real world of today there are a lot more people who can read Sumerian, and I'm one of them, having studied the language for two years at the University of Helsinki. :) I just had to nitpick a bit, but really I'm extremely excited that there exists a cyberpunk novel that talks about Mesopotamia! And computer science, although that's expected. Whee!)
About the book
From Wikipedia:
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
Snow Crash rocketed to the top of the fiction best-seller charts upon its publication and established Stephenson as a major science fiction writer of the 1990s. The book appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 all-time best English-language novels written since 1923.
Book description:
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.
I'm very much looking forward to reading the book, as I've never before encountered something that includes two of my interests, computer science and assyriology, in one package. (I noticed that the author states on page 197 that at any given time, there are roughly 10 people in the world who can read Sumerian. Maybe this is true in the future world of the novel, but in the real world of today there are a lot more people who can read Sumerian, and I'm one of them, having studied the language for two years at the University of Helsinki. :) I just had to nitpick a bit, but really I'm extremely excited that there exists a cyberpunk novel that talks about Mesopotamia! And computer science, although that's expected. Whee!)
About the book
From Wikipedia:
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
Snow Crash rocketed to the top of the fiction best-seller charts upon its publication and established Stephenson as a major science fiction writer of the 1990s. The book appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 all-time best English-language novels written since 1923.
Book description:
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.
