This month marks the 30th anniversary of his novel Snow Crash, which coined the term metaverse. 'Brilliantly realized.Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow. Author Neal Stephenson speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2016 in San Francisco. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous.you'll recognize it immediately. No matter the underlying psychological reasons for why an author does this, it still allows the reader to question the possibilities of his reality actually becoming reality. Stephenson now resides in a comfortable home in the western hemisphere and spends all of his time trying to retrofit an office into its generally dark, unlevel, and asbestos-laden basement so that he can. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.

Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's 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 was written in the years 1988 through 1991 as the author listened to a great deal of loud, relentless, depressing music. Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza, Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash 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. Learn more Ask the Author To ask Neal Stephenson questions, please sign up. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison-a writer so original, he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac.

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