Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson
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Author: Neal StephensonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-02
ISBN: 0553380958
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: Great novel, but don't believe that it is just cyberpunk
Summary: 4 Stars
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is one of the most influencial books for Internet programmers. It is essentially cyberpunk, but takes it to a new level with realistic but visionary descriptions of his version of the Internet: A fully 3d rendered version of a fictional place. Don't be put off by yet another cyberpunk book though. The Metaverse is purely a vechicle, not the actual message of the book. The book is about data. It is about the transmission, interpretation, delivery and anything else you care to relate to data. Big statement? Sure, but read this book and understand.
Bad points? The book falls of the end. It seems uncomplete and ragged in the last fifty pages. The only book I would put down as a must read.
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