Snow Crash Export

@book{citeulike:432486, abstract = {{From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel <I>Snow Crash</I>, 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, <I>Snow Crash</I> 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, <I>Snow Crash</I> is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. } {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 <b>Snow Crash</b> 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.<br><br>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. <b>Snow Crash</b> is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.} {<p>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 <I>Snow Crash</I> 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.</p><p>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. <I>Snow Crash</I> is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.</p><HR><p>"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."<br>\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;<I>LOS ANGELES READER</I></p><p>"A cross between <I>Neuromancer</I> and Thomas Pynchon's <I>Vineland</I>. This is no mere hyperbole."<br>\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;<I>SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN</I></p><p>"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."<br>\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;<A HREF="/author.cgi/9073">WILLIAM GIBSON</A></p><p>"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."<br>\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;<I>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</I></p><HR>}}, author = {Stephenson, Neal}, citeulike-article-id = {432486}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&amp;path=ASIN/0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&amp;path=ASIN/0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140232923/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0140232923}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0140232923&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0140232923}, day = {31}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0140232923}, keywords = {cyberpunk, fiction, transhumanism}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2005-12-11 14:47:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Gardners Books}}, title = {Snow Crash}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0140232923}, year = {2004} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:432486 L3 - citeulike-article-id:432486 N2 - {From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel <I>Snow Crash</I>, 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, <I>Snow Crash</I> 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, <I>Snow Crash</I> is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. } {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 <b>Snow Crash</b> 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.<br><br>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. <b>Snow Crash</b> is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous...you'll recognize it immediately.} {<p>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 <I>Snow Crash</I> 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.</p><p>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. <I>Snow Crash</I> is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately.</p><HR><p>"Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel."<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>LOS ANGELES READER</I></p><p>"A cross between <I>Neuromancer</I> and Thomas Pynchon's <I>Vineland</I>. This is no mere hyperbole."<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN</I></p><p>"Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century."<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="/author.cgi/9073">WILLIAM GIBSON</A></p><p>"Brilliantly realized... Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow."<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</I></p><HR>} SN - 0140232923 TI - Snow Crash PB - {Gardners Books} KW - cyberpunk KW - fiction KW - transhumanism AU - Stephenson, Neal PY - 2004/08/31/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0140232923 ER -