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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired)
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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . youll recognize it immediately.… (mere)
davesmind: Although Snow Crash is a classic of cyberpunk, I think Ready Player One has a more captivating story - especially if you played video games in the 80's
jbgryphon: RPO's OASIS owes it's existence as much to Neil Stephenson's Metaverse as to the miriad of geek universes that are included in it.
fulner: Ready player one is what Snow crash should have been. A story focused primarily on the inter-personal-relationships of others "online" in a futuristic version of the internet in which we live in a 3-D world as the real world around us crashes and burns.
The biggest difference is Ready Player One Doesn't Suck. Still somewhat heretical, but its heresy can be easily dismissed on that the protagonist is an atheist.… (mere)
pammab: To explore the possibilities of virtual reality in the near future. Duane's is much more traditional and pro-corporate fantasy; Stephenson's is more humor-based anti-corporate cyberpunk.
I am not much in to political content. this one was just to much of that. Like other Stephenson books it is well written and very good with respect to writing. The content was just not for me. ( )
Ludicrous premise, absurd plot, but prescient in some striking ways (although I suppose if your novel has 1000 ideas, some of them are bound to be right). Glad to have read it, but not the SF heavyweight I expected. ( )
This book got my nerd on a lot less than I was expecting, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. I think that in 1992, when this book was published, it was probably a lot more impressive on the technical, internet side. The fact that a lot of the ideas in the story are not that impressive nowadays is all the more impressive. Also, Stephenson has a kind of humor that isn't super-obvious until you're already in the middle of the joke. Finally, the union of cyber, punk, history, linguistics, pop culture, etc. was ultimately a bit much for my taste, but I'll definitely be reading more of Neal Stephenson. ( )
Hiro Protagonist (who has chosen his own name, of course) turns out to be entertaining company, and Mr. Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific.
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snow n. . . . 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.
crash v....--intr. . . . 5. To fail suddenly, as a business or an economy. ---The American Heritage Dictionary
virus. . . . [L.virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odor or taste.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2.Patha. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them. . . . 3.fig. A moral or intellectual poison, or poisonous influence. --The Oxford English Dictionary
Tilegnelse
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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here.
Citater
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HIRO PROTAGONIST Last of the freelance hackers Greatest sword fighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation Specializing in software-related intel (music, movies & microcode)
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
"Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML:The brilliantly realized (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term metaverseone of Times 100 best English-language novels and a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement (Wired)
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. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . youll recognize it immediately.
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