Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person...
Publish Date
2011-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
2011-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 1992
Goodreads rating
4.02
ISBN
9788416035830
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Recommendations
10
Recommendations
It's a tough call because I prefer other books of Neal Stephenson. But Snow Crash is so important within the history of science fiction. – source
Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There’s nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own. – source
Such a good book but you can’t give it to someone now. I've tried; it doesn’t work. You have to read it before you’ve been on the internet. – source
2000-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Within the computer field, there are classical books I still find impressive, like Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That was really ten years ahead of its time. It kind of anticipated what’s going to happen, and I find that really interesting – source2021-08-18T06:17:27.000Z
@hudsonjameson @monicapuchner Ooh please read Snow Crash, it's a bit of a cliche book to talk about in tech but it's soo good and really changed my thinking when I read it! – source2018-01-08T01:20:59.000Z
@Spacekatgal 1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
3. Snow Crash – source