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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Isabel Turner Branch | Fiction SF Steph | On loan until: 03/Jun/24 |
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Title Statement | Snow crash: a novel / Neal Stephenson. |
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Author | Stephenson, Neal |
Publication | ©1992New York, NY: Del Rey,2022 |
Edition | Del Rey hardcover 30th anniversary edition. |
Extent of Item | 565 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593599730 059359973X |
Other Number | 4518801 |
General Notes | Originally published in a slightly different form in the United States by Bantam Spectra, 1992. Illustrations on end papers. |
Summary | "Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He'll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination."--Publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Virtual reality--Fiction |
Drugs--Fiction | |
Artificial intelligence--Fiction | |
Augmented reality--Fiction | |
Hackers--Fiction | |
By Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Suspense fiction |
Science fiction |