Editorial Penguin UK
Fecha de edición diciembre 2006
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780241953181
448 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
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 behind the avatar. Snow Crash bleeds into reality.
Which is really bad news for Hiro - freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter (he wrote the code) - and Y. T. - skateboard kourier, street imp and mouthy teenage girl - because reality was shitty enough before someone started messing with it . . .
Exploring linguistics, religion, computer science, politics, philosophy, cryptography and the future of pizza delivery, Snow Crash is a riveting, brake-neck adventure into the fast-approaching future.
Neal Stephenson es básicamente un autor de ficción y ha recibido varios premios por sus obras de narrativa fantástica, incluyendo cinco premios Locus, un premio Hugo y un premio Clarke.
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