Snow Crash
by Stephenson, Neal
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 055308853X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553088533
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Spectra Books, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Bowing visible to boards and pages. Bumping to ends of spine strip and board corners. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Synopsis
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy. Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning... was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer.
Reviews
On Nov 11 2019, a reader said:
In one of the most perceivable dystopian futures that I can imagine, Hiro is everything.
Honestly, I'm not looking for the money. I am registering an amount because your own review of this book captures the fine points so well. Neal Stevenson's writing in Snow Crash is so visceral and complex, that you have no choice but to become immersed in the world he creates. It fires your brain for weeks after the read, if not longer. It takes time to wrap one's head around his world and language, and his execution is flawless.
This book is at pleat as important as Stranger in a Strange Land.
10/10 Worth the read
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Details
- Bookseller
- ThriftBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1035450208
- Title
- Snow Crash
- Author
- Stephenson, Neal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 055308853X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553088533
- Publisher
- Spectra Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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