![]() ![]() While the number of copies sold still isn't as large as people tend to assume, it made far more of an impact than my earlier works, and launched my career in a number of ways. ![]() ![]() Neal Stephenson's objective rendering of characters' behavior/responses to situations provides a very useful juxtaposition to the readers' typical emotional one, and gives a matter-of-fact tone to future-shock-y situations that the reader would otherwise not know how to process. SNOW CRASH Written in an attempt to salvage a few elements from an earlier graphic novel project, this book became important, and changed my life. Snow Crash continues to remain entertaining, with the stories and characters that are part tongue-in-cheek and part all too real, and themes that are never out of style - swords- cars-bikes-teen rebellion - badassery-adventure-chases -gangs. Written whenever, it remains real wherever you go today, with criminal corporations, suburban enclaves, runaway inflation, immersive 3d worlds with their own currency and cultures, large governmental organizations building software, large scale exodus and refugees & media preachers, ancient religions. ![]() With technology, a hundred years is covered in ten years, and in this, Snow Crash stands up to the challenge. 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. Every once in a while there comes a story that is so real that it is difficult to distinguish between the story and reality, and it continues to be so for a hundred years. ![]()
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