Snow Crash

Book

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra 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 th... Show More

Number of Pages: 559

ASIN: B000FBJCJE

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Naval Ravikant

Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There’s nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own.

Marc Andreessen 1 year ago

SNOW CRASH was *wildly* ahead of its time. Also, RAINBOWS END by Vernor Vinge.

Geoffrey Miller 1 year ago

For @nealstephenson, I'd recommend 'The Diamond Age' (1995) in addition to 'Snow Crash' (1992) -- a vision of how decentralized, interactive, customized education could enlighten billions

Antonio García Martínez 1 year ago

That said, I think it's a somewhat denuded public space when literally the only things that function are Amazon delivering your stuff, Zoom staying up, and everything else going to hell.Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is a wonderful book that completely nails where we were going, tho... Show More

William Gibson

Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.

Matt Huang 9 months ago

Re-read Snow Crash this weekend, and it is remarkable that it was published *30 years ago* in 1992… sovereign corporations hyperinflation digital currency the metaverse anon avatars memetics linguistic brain viruses … it really has it all.