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SNOW CRASH
por Stephenson, Neal
- Usado
- Assinado
- Condição
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with cloth slipcase. (31885)
- Livreiro
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este item
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2008. Limited edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with cloth slipcase. (31885). Octavo, cloth. Of 526 numbered and lettered copies, this copy is marked "PC." "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where he must use his hacker skills to fight a deadly new computer virus. Stephenson's first SF novel (he had previously written a couple of environmentalist thrillers), and something of a trendy cult book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 332. "The action, and there's a lot of noisy action, is powered by a conspiracy involving a Secret History of the last 4000 years, the Tower of Babel, a cult predating the Babylonians, and much else ... Knowing and acerbic, a dazzling hyperkinetic dance down the mean streets of cyberspace and back up again into the sunlight." - Paul McAuley, Interzone. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1077. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
Sinopse
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer.
Avaliações
Em Nov 11 2019, um leitor disse:
In one of the most perceivable dystopian futures that I can imagine, Hiro is everything.
Honestly, I'm not looking for the money. I am registering an amount because your own review of this book captures the fine points so well. Neal Stevenson's writing in Snow Crash is so visceral and complex, that you have no choice but to become immersed in the world he creates. It fires your brain for weeks after the read, if not longer. It takes time to wrap one's head around his world and language, and his execution is flawless.
This book is at pleat as important as Stranger in a Strange Land.
10/10 Worth the read
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 31885
- Título
- SNOW CRASH
- Autor
- Stephenson, Neal
- Estado do livro
- Usado - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with cloth slipcase. (31885)
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- Limited edition
- Editorial
- Subterranean Press
- Local de publicação
- [Burton, MI]
- Data de publicação
- 2008
- Palavras-chave
- SF . Signed
Termos da venda
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Sobre o Vendedor
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
Membro de Biblio desde 2017
Laurel, Maryland
Sobre John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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