eBook, 467 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2003 by Bantam Books.
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.From the Paperback edition.
I read it in the 90's. It was magnificent. I don't know if I'd read it now. There's not enough time, and there are so many newer things to read. Read it for research, if you want to know where the genre came from?
La prima metà del libro è un capolavoro, dalla seconda metà diventa sempre più difficile leggerlo fino alla fine. Parte con 150 pagine su sumeri per poi complicarsi e non far capire più niente, oltre a perdere la bellezza della scrittura iniziale che si addentra in descrizione di tecnicismi cybepunk superflui e sempre meno entusiasmanti. Le ultime 200 pagine ti spingono ad abbandonarlo, devi resistere a un caos di scrittura di vari eventi in cui hai ormai perso e non compreso i dettagli della storia.
