false 62883012 987180 877974 0140232923 9780140232929 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179119725m/877974.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877974.Snow_Crash 4.16 114 Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. --Acton Lane]]> 545 3.99 59575 5346 2 0 false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 01:53:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:24:54 -0700 2009