Neal Stephenson, already featured in this list with Seveneves and Diamond Age, masterfully crafts a cyberpunk tapestry that pulsates with frenetic energy and visionary brilliance. Venturing into a near-future dystopia, Stephenson juxtaposes ancient mythologies with the digital zeitgeist, weaving a narrative that's both an exhilarating thriller and a profound commentary on the intersection of technology, language, and society. With its iconic protagonist, Hiro Protagonist, navigating a fragmented America dominated by corporate enclaves and virtual realms, 'Snow Crash' remains a luminous beacon in speculative fiction, unparalleled in its audacity and prescience
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state.
This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores
linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future.
'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson
'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review
'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed'Washington Post
'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair
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