Snow Crash

One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.

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 cybersensibi...

One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.

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 cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in 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.

［美］尼尔•斯蒂芬森

美国著名幻想文学作家，其作品包括科幻小说、历史小说和高科技惊险小说，题材涉及数学、哲学、宗教、金融、密码破译和科技史等多个学科领域。

出版于1992年的《雪崩》是斯蒂芬森重要的科幻作品之一，标志着他创作风格的成熟，面世后引发汹涌的赛博朋克阅读风潮。此后，他的作家生涯进入黄金期，几乎每四年便推出一部脍炙人口的大作。其中，1995年的《钻石时代》获得雨果奖；1999年的《编码宝典》及此后的“巴洛克”三部曲以破译数据密码为中心线索，结合历史小说和科技惊险小说的元素，戏剧性地重述了科技发展史，大受读者好评。其后，斯蒂芬森推出的《飞越修道院》和《七族》都成功入围雨果奖决选。