One of Time's 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America
so bizarre so outrageous you'll recognize it immediately 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 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 the shadowy
virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Praise for Snow Crash "[Snow Crash
is] a cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole."-The
San Francisco Bay Guardian "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first
century."-William Gibson "Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging
guide to an onrushing tomorrow."-The New York Times Book Review
