num_pages: 470
description: 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 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  cyber-sensibility to bring us the gigantic thriller of the  information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers  pizza for Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Inc., but it  the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. 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   is a mind-altering romp through a future America  so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it  immediately.
language: English
title: Snow Crash
titlecomplete: Snow Crash
characters: Uncle Enzo, Juanita Marquez, L. Bob Rife, Da5id Meier, Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff, Dr. Emanuel Lagos, Y.T., Hiro Protagonist
genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Audiobook, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 273802
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor Novela Extranjera, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Washington State Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Bantam Books