num_pages: 17
description: From the opening sentence of this genre-defining cyberpunk novel, the listener is plunged into the not-too-distant future. Here, the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States is revealed to be a tangled web of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet is all-powerful. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. So when his best friend freaks out on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, it's Hiro to the rescue. This is mind-altering, 21st-century adventure that interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to glimpses of a postmodern society on the verge of collapse -- a porthole into a future so bizarre it just may be possible.
language: English
title: Snow Crash
titlecomplete: Snow Crash
characters: Y.T., Dr. Emanuel Lagos, Hiro Protagonist, L. Bob Rife, Uncle Enzo, Da5id Meier, Dmitri "Raven" Ravinoff, Juanita Marquez
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 273849
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: Time Warner Audiobooks