TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephenson,Neal
TI  - Snow crash: a novel
SN  - 9780241629833
U1  - 813/.54 22/eng/20231120
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Computer viruses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cyberpunk culture
KW  - Cyberspace
KW  - Virtual reality
KW  - Hackers
KW  - Mythology, Sumerian
KW  - Virus informatiques - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Cyberpunk (Mouvement) - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Cyberespace - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Réalité virtuelle - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Pirates informatiques - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Mythologie sumérienne - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - California - Los Angeles
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
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