Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>One of <i>Time</i>s 100 best English-language novels "?A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre so outrageousyoull recognize it immediately</b><br><br> Only once in a  great while does a writer come along who defies comparisona writer so original he  redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and <i>Snow  Crash</i> 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.<br> <b><br> </b>In reality Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzos CosoNostra  Pizza Inc. but in the Metaverse hes a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the  enigma of a new computer virus thats 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.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Snow Crash</i></b><br><br>[<i>Snow Crash</i> is] a cross between <i>Neuromancer</i> and Thomas Pynchon??s <i>Vineland</i>. This is no mere hyperbole.??<b>?<i>The San Francisco Bay Guardian</i></b><br><br> ??Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century.??<b>?William Gibson</b><br><br> ??Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.??<b><i>?The New York Times Book Review</i></b></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel <I>Snow Crash</I>?? Neal Stephenson plunges the