A world where sword-wielding hackers deliver pizza for the mob, vengeful inuit throw glass-tipped harpoons and drive motorcycles with hydrogen bomb sidecars, extraterritorial franchises have their own consolates scattered across the country, or what remains of it. It’s safe to say life in Snow Crash is usually pretty interesting.
I heard about Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, back in college. Amongst an innumerable number of computer types: programmers, admins, hackers, web designers etc, the hyper-stylzed life of a computer nerd-ninja had a wide-ranging appeal. I’m still not sure how I managed to avoid reading the book that so thoroughly defined my culture. Still, it remained on my list as a book I wanted to at least peek into.
And I happened to do just that last week. If I had to give a one-liner review it’d be, Neuromancer with healthy side of irreverance. It has all the dismal imagery of a cyberpunk novel: dystopian america, oligarchic tyranny, technology with a slavish tyranny over mankind, but it escapes the gloom with an endless cycle of just-on-the-edge of plausible absurdities. Couriers, called Kouriers, riding computerized skateboards pulled by tow cables, a main character named Hiro Protagonist, robotic dog guards, it hits them all and then some.
It’s a brilliant book and if I didn’t think so I wouldn’t waste my time here. For any science fiction junkies out there it’s definitely worth picking up. Snow Crash is the sort of novel that can’t help but inspire even more stories and makes for a hell of a read from beginning to end.
I can not quite see it through your eyes in all my honesty. maybe that is because i am very new in this field but I’ll continue reading and shoot an email when I’ve some questions if you do not have anything agains this?