Stephenson, Neal  1959- <br/><br/>
Snow crash  a novel 
Neal Stephenson 
 - 30th anniversary edition 
 - VIII, 565 Seiten  Illustrationen 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in slightly different form in the United States by Bantam Spectra, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1992"--Title page verso  Includes a foreword and a new, prequel chapter by the author  Zusätzlich auf dem Umschlag: 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century' William Gibson 
<br/><br/> The 30th anniversary edition of the modern classic that popularised the term 'metaverse', exploring (in an eerily prescient way) computer science, the advance of technology, wealth inequality, politics and philosophy. In the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons - there is a new drug available- Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, it also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241629833  paperback 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Computer viruses--Fiction<br/>Cyberpunk culture--Fiction<br/>Cyberspace--Fiction<br/>Virtual reality--Fiction<br/>Hackers--Fiction<br/>Mythology, Sumerian--Fiction<br/>Virus informatiques - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Cyberpunk (Mouvement) - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Cyberespace - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Réalité virtuelle - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Pirates informatiques - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Mythologie sumérienne - Romans, nouvelles, etc<br/>Computer viruses<br/>Cyberpunk culture<br/>Cyberspace<br/>Hackers<br/>Mythology, Sumerian<br/>Virtual reality<br/>Fiction<br/>Science fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction<br/>California - Los Angeles
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Science fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54